Hello Families! Wow! We had the best time at Lego Land on Friday! I want to thank all of the parents and families who joined us because your efforts were so helpful and made our trip even more memorable. I will post pictures soon!

Here are our plans for the week:

Spelling

Words

1. say

2. tray

3. away

4. gray

5. may

6. day

7. once

8. would

9. live

10. open

I know we had an exciting and busy week, but many students did not spend much time practicing their spelling words. Please encourage them to do this at home. They should be focusing on the spelling patterns. This week’s pattern is -ay

Reading: We are focusing on fiction stories this week. Retelling (reporting the important events of the story in order) is an important part of comprehension, so we will practice this week. Students can do this orally or written with his/her books at home. Also, we are practicing how to ask questions about a book. Many students are still unsure how to distinguish between a question and statement. Finally, we will focus on identifying the central message or lesson in a book.

Writing: We wrote concrete poems last week. The children did an awesome job! We will display them in our classroom, so feel free to look for them. A great time to do this would be at our Open House on Monday from 9-10.

Math: We are going to start learning about how to tell the difference between 2 D and 3D shapes. There are a ton of YouTube videos and songs that can help your child with this as well. We will look at the attributes or characteristics of shapes and learn how to identify the shape, its faces, vertices, and edges eventually. As I graded their Unit 6 math tests, I noticed that many of them had difficulty with fact families, so click on the video below to review this. I will also be reviewing it this week in class. I will send some fact family activities home with some of my students for extra practice.

click here for fact family video

Social Studies: We are continuing to look at maps and symbols. We didn’t get a chance to create a classroom map last week, but we’ll try again this week. Some of their illustrations of maps that they’ve seen were awesome! I will post those pictures soon.

Science: We continue to learn that the sun is a star that provides us with warmth, heat and energy. Earth’s rotation around the sun is the reason for the seasons. Earth’s rotation on its access causes day and night.

Let’s have an awesome week!