Hello!
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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Niraja
11/24/2019 12:21:00 pm
They are learning so much! Thank you for keeping us informed of all they do and learn. So busy and so much fun!
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