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I hope you had a great time at the Family Dance if you attended! There was quite the excitement about it this week! With Thanksgiving Break approaching, we still have a lot of learning taking place and are using each day to teach and learn. It is important your child is at school and on time. If your child is going to be gone, please let me know, so I can plan and prepare accordingly. Thank you! Math: We worked on some more multiplication problems and using strategies to efficiently solve problems involving multiplication. We started a brief introduction to division last week. Students solved story problems involving both multiplication and division. I also introduced the Slide and Ladders Game to the class. They are LOVING the game. I took a poll on who has played it at home to get an idea of how many students have been practicing their facts. It would be awesome if you could be playing some sort of multiplication game at home whether it is Slides and Ladder or Multiplication War. If you need another copy of the game, please reach out! How can I support my child at home with math? -Play multiplication math games!! Writing: Students have been working on their opinion piece. They have all come up with a sentence stating their opinion and three reasons to support their opinion. We are working to also support our reasons using facts, example, or mini stories. Students learned this week the important of hooking their reader and also including their opinion in the introduction. Ask your child what they are writing their opinion piece on! :) Reading: We finished our mystery unit and celebrated by being crime solvers while watching an episode Scooby Doo. We talked about the mystery, who there crime solvers were, the clues, if there were any red herring clues, and worked on retelling what we watched. Students took an assessment showing me how their reading skills have improved. Skills such as making an inference and summarizing their reading. Thanks to the parents who have been asking their child questions about what they are reading! I can see a difference in those students already! We will be starting our new unit: reading to learn. This unit teaches students how to identify the main idea of a non-fiction article or text. Students will need to spend some of their time reading non-fiction books so they can practice these skills. I will be sending home the information for this unit this week. Be on the look out for it so you can support your child at home with what we are doing at school. We also started a new read aloud book called Fish In A Tree. We are only three chapters in but it has been incredibly powerful so far. Students ask daily if we will be able to read more of it! We have had lots of incredible discussions. Ask your child what it is about! Science: We started looking at how plants/flowers are created and how it takes two parent flowers to create another baby flower. We will continue looking at the traits of plants as well. See our pictures from the last couple weeks!
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So many exciting things have been going on in our classroom. We got to meet our Kindergarten buddies, we had out first Art Lit, and the students finished their narrative pieces they worked so hard on! Math: As I shared at conferences, we finished our first math unit that included rounding to the nearest 10 and 100, adding and subtracting 3-digit numbers. We have started our next unit which is the introduction to multiplication and division. Students started the unit by figuring out the total cost of groups of stamps. We discovered there were so many strategies we could use to solve for the total. Below is an example. Ways to support your child in math? -Start playing the Slides and Ladder Game I sent home. It will be HARD for them if they are starting multiplication for the first time but it would be great practice. -Draw pictures similar to the stamps above and ask them to write a multiplication equation for the picture. Reading: We are working through our mystery unit now where students are working on skills such as: inferring/predicting, identifying who the crime solver is, and what the mystery is, and summarizing. These skills will be assessed for the second time this year in the next weeks. How can you support your child in reading? Ask them their five finger summary! Use the picture below to help. Writing: We finished our narrative writing unit and are on to opinion writing! Students brought in their collections from home or use a dragon collection at school as a way to judge items. Students learned there are 3 ways to fairly judge items. See the picture below! Here are some pictures! |
Sept. 14th- First Day of Online Learning
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