Jan 12-16
I have a love/hate relationship with the first week back from winter break! I love seeing your children again!! I love getting some one-on-one time with each of them as I complete mid year reading assessments. I love to see how confident they are and how fluently they read this time of year. I hate that it's so hard to get back into a routine and we are all wiped out by 1pm everyday! At our house we are trying to get back into a good routine after staying up late during break! Make sure you give yourselves a break as you as are scurrying around and trying to get back in to a routine!!
REMINDERS
Monday: Reading and Math Homework comes home.
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders on Wednesday morning. Report cards for second nine-weeks come home. There will be a note about Report Cards and Reading progress with the report card. Please sign the report card envelope and return it on Wednesday.
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday: Library Day. All library books are due by 8:00 AM
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders on Wednesday morning. Report cards for second nine-weeks come home. There will be a note about Report Cards and Reading progress with the report card. Please sign the report card envelope and return it on Wednesday.
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday: Library Day. All library books are due by 8:00 AM
Homework is due.
READING
In Reading we will work on expository/non-fiction books. We will review the features of expository text such as headings and photographs with captions instead of illustrations (mostly) and think about the author's purpose in writing expository texts. Authors of expository texts are experts in that area and they know so much about a topic they can teach others about the topic. The main purpose is to inform and teach. We will learn, as readers, we always need to figure out the main idea in a nonfiction book. The title and the bold headings along with reading the text and finding the important information that the author is trying to teach will all give us hints about the main idea.
In Reading we will work on expository/non-fiction books. We will review the features of expository text such as headings and photographs with captions instead of illustrations (mostly) and think about the author's purpose in writing expository texts. Authors of expository texts are experts in that area and they know so much about a topic they can teach others about the topic. The main purpose is to inform and teach. We will learn, as readers, we always need to figure out the main idea in a nonfiction book. The title and the bold headings along with reading the text and finding the important information that the author is trying to teach will all give us hints about the main idea.
WRITING
In writing, we will start writing expository texts. We will make a list of things that we are expert at and know a lot and choose from our list to write about a topic. Our main purpose is to teach and inform others.
MATH.
In math, we will still be working on addition strategies including bridge to ten. Our main goal is for students to get familiar to and practice all strategies and use as different tools in solving math problems. While students will practice more addition facts, they will also get more fluent in problem solving. We will continue and review doubles, number line, using ten-frames, and bridge to ten.
SCIENCE
This week in science we will learn about seasons, day and night. We will learn about the characteristics of each season and how the weather changes in each season. We will discuss the relative temperature in each season and how the length of day and night is different in different seasons.
In math, we will still be working on addition strategies including bridge to ten. Our main goal is for students to get familiar to and practice all strategies and use as different tools in solving math problems. While students will practice more addition facts, they will also get more fluent in problem solving. We will continue and review doubles, number line, using ten-frames, and bridge to ten.
SCIENCE
This week in science we will learn about seasons, day and night. We will learn about the characteristics of each season and how the weather changes in each season. We will discuss the relative temperature in each season and how the length of day and night is different in different seasons.
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