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Monday, April 14, 2014
Monday, April 14
Hello 204 Parents!
Welcome back from Spring Break! I hope you enjoyed the week off... The Weckstein's went to Florida and it was PERFECT!!! Sunshine, the beach, palm trees, warm air... and even someone's first tooth!!
April Reading Calendars - I have to apologize!! They have been here in the tub waiting to go home and are now rather late! Feel free to fill in what you recall if your child is reading daily (which they should be) and then go from today, April 14th on the calendar if you can't recall. I'm noticing that not many Reading Calendars are being returned. Please remember that these are mandatory and need to be done and returned. It is vital that your child is reading daily, I cannot emphasize enough just how important this is for their growth!
Word Study has kept our second graders on
their toes lately! We have been focusing
on recognizing vowel teams in words (like “oa” in “goat”), listening for
consonant clusters at the beginning of a word (like “st” in “stop”) and
listening for consonant clusters at the end of a word (like “mp” in
“jump”).
During Writer’s Workshop, students had a week
to finish publishing their personal narratives.
We focused on having a neatly written and illustrated final copy. We finished learning about personal narratives
by having a celebration! Second Grader’s
came to Camp Read S’more on Friday last week.
The students shared their personal narratives with children from other
classrooms. Children were also able to
set up their tents and have some reading time around the room during that
time. Thank you to the parents who sent
in supplies for our s’more trail mix snacks!
This past week
during Writer’s Workshop, children
have started to work on planning the characters, setting, problem and solution,
and repeating lines for their own fairytale story. We were able to use what we learned from our
study in Reader’s Workshop and apply the fairytale elements to our own
writing.
Our study
of fairytale and folktale elements in Reader’s
Workshop came to an end last week! We dove into different fairytale and folktale
stories to discover magic and repeating lines in books. We also learned about the different
tellings/perspectives that are found in different fairytale and folktale books.
This past week
in Reader’s Workshop, we started a
new unit on non-fiction books (books that tell us true facts or real
information). We started by talking
about what makes a non-fiction book different from a fiction book and then
sorting books in our classroom into fiction and non-fiction piles! The children were great at finding
non-fiction books and telling one another an example that makes it
non-fiction. We also focused on learning
a few text features that are found in non-fiction books (glossary, index, table
of contents, close-up, caption…).
Students also have had a chance to explore non-fiction books on their
own and practice reading a few at their just right reading level!
In Social
Studies, we have also been spending more time focusing on the history of our
community. We have found examples of
what Walled Lake was like many years ago by looking at different jobs that were
held, what schools were like, and what the community looked like! Thank you for supporting learning at home by
completing the Venn Diagram of how schools are the same and different now and
in the past!
Lately,
just at the mention of science, we
hear cheers! Children have loved exploring
air and weather this unit. Children also have been re-enforced with the
information on moon phases and different tools to collect rain (rain gauge),
tell the temperature (thermometer) and discover wind speed (anemometer and wind
vanes). Children loved exploring wind
with bubbles this week in science. We
talked about how wind can change direction and cause a flow of air movement
that the bubbles can travel along! The
children LOVED being outside to explore with bubbles! This would be an easy activity to do at home
too!
We had HUGE
amounts of learning in math last
week when teams of children measured to make GIANT body parts that we pieced
together to make a classroom giant.
After we measured how tall our classroom giant was, we compared them with
the other second grade classrooms! The
children continued to practice using measurement by measuring to the nearest
inch/centimeter and nearest half inch/centimeter. Children also learned about perimeter and
area this week by measuring different objects around our classroom. In addition, children explored capacity and
weight! We also had our benchmark and
Unit 9 math test where children were able to showcase their math knowledge!
Important Dates:
Tuesday, April 15: Artifacts Museum in Social Studies DUE
Friday, April 18: No School - Good Friday holiday
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Mid-Week Update :-)
Hello 204 Parents!
Thank you SO much for all of the donations you
have sent in… We were in dire need of supplies and you have been extremely
generous! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! You’re the best!
We have also enjoyed several different Mystery Readers for March is Reading Month! It has been awesome to have familiar faces from district positions, familiar faces of former students and siblings of current students coming in to share their favorite books. It's definitely a highlight of our day! We still have days available if you or one of your family members would love to come and read to our class!
Reader’s Workshop
In Reader’s Workshop we have
spent a great deal of time looking at different types of genres, we listed many
and talked about how some fit under the umbrella of non-fiction and some fit under fiction,
while some might fall in both categories.
The readers spent some time sorting books in their bins to find what
type of genre they read and they also took a look at their reading logs
too. Some students discovered they only
like to read a certain genre, others read many types of the genres. “Mystery” was the first genre we took a
closer look at. We read a Nate the
Great book and talked about how the character has a problem to solve before
the end of the book. The readers moved
onto the next genre- Realistic Fiction.
Many of the readers felt they could relate to these books more than the
other genres. We pulled a previous book
we read, Erandi’s Braids, to take a closer look a Historical Fiction. The author will use a time in history, but
the characters are made up from their imagination. We finished out the week looking at
Traditional Literature- these types of books might include fantasy, fairy
tales, folk tales, and fables. These are
stories that are passed down from one generation to another. Cinderella is a wonderful example of a fairy
tale. After each lesson, the students
read that particular genre independently and then shared with their reading
partner. This gives the student time to
explain their thinking before we do a whole group share. As the week finishes up, we will be tallying
up all of our reading genres to see what we read the most of, and which genres
we need to read more of in the future!
Writer’s Workshop
It has been exciting to see
students working on and putting their finishing touches on their personal
narratives. We have spent a great deal
of time discussing and practicing revision and editing. Our goal in the next few weeks is to have
each child finish at least one personal narrative, having gone through each
stage of the writing process. When
students share their piece with others they realize something is missing or
they might also get feedback from a friend of what should be added. We have discussed in great length what a good
piece needs, it should have a good lead, beginning, middle, end, and a
closing. It’s exciting to listen and
hear students helping others. Students
will be publishing these pieces too.
We were fortunate enough to have a local
author, Sandy George, come and read to our class for “March is Reading month”…
We then tapped into her writing skills and she talked a great deal about the
writing process. This helped our writers to realize when we draft a piece, we’ve
really only just begun! It was awesome to see the detail the kids spent on
their revision and editing as they could recall Mrs. George saying she spent
weeks and weeks editing and revising her book!
Word Study
In Word Study we learned
about adding a suffix to a word. We
added er to words. Students learned that there are many rules to
follow. Some words doubled the last
consonant, from run to runner, some just add er-- lead to leader, and
other words just add the r, drive to driver. This is very
tricky, we also said that the words NEED to look right too. Students played “Word Race” with the word
chunks tr, br, dr, and cl.
The students had to look at the beginning and end of the word to solve
the new word to play this game. The
next activity, Word Grid Game continued with the students looking the beginning
word chunks. Next, we learned that some
words have two vowels that go together: ail, ain, and an. The vowel sound in
the middle is usually the name of the first vowel. Students brainstormed words with these
patterns and then sorted more words with their phonics group. We
finished out the week by looking at the word pattern -ight-. Students thought of
many words with this pattern and played “Follow the Path”.
Math Workshop
Our mathematicians have spent
the past couple of weeks learning about fractions. Students were taught the word numerator- the number above the bar in a fraction, it tells how
many parts of a group. They also learned
that the denominator means the number
below the bar in a fraction, it tells the number of equal parts in all. Many students have the concept of writing
basic fractions - ½ or ¼ , and drawing
the picture to represent the correct fraction.
We also worked on equivalent fractions, but many students find it tricky
to find equivalent fractions and fractional parts of a group- ¼ of 20 = 5. We finished out the week reading the book Hershey
Fractions, then used Hershey candy bars to answer fraction questions, we
counted fraction amounts of the colors of M and M’s in bags, and blew bubbles
and kept track of the fraction of success we had. We all had fraction FUN!!!!
The Math Benchmark study guide will be
coming home soon, so please review this with your child. We are aiming to give
our Math Benchmark on Thursday, March 27th.
Social Studies
Our Market Day was a huge
success! We have some very creative producers and consumers in our class! The
stores were jammed with items and consumers were eager to shop. We were able to
write about our experiences after and incorporated in words like: goods,
services, producers, consumers, opportunity cost and scarcity! The students
took their social studies test last week, over all they did wonderful. We talked how it helps to be prepared for a
test- students must study, be prepared, and listen in class.
We are starting our new unit
on the history of Walled Lake/White Lake.
This week we discussed what is specifically is “history”. History is the study of the past and what
happened in it. Students take a closer
look at how our area has changed over time.
Our students will have a museum of family artifacts, more information
will be coming home.
Science
What a wet and crazy science
week we had, we used a tub of water to explore. Students had to make bubbles using a vial,
keep a paper towel dry in a vial, pore air from one vial to another, and
transfer a foam ball from one vial to another all under water. WHEW- all in one day! The scientists realized
that air takes up space.
The scientists made a water
fountain, another wet day! The
scientists explored using syringes, tubes, bottles, and water, they had to
figure out in small groups how air and water can make a water fountain. From the previous lesson, they knew about
pressure and compression, very quickly the scientists had water splashing out
of a syringe. We learned… Air escapes out the open syringe as water flows
in. The water flowing into the bottle
pushes air through the shorter tube and out the open syringe to make the water
fountain.
The amazing meteorologists
have been telling the class about the daily weather. Thank you parents for your help!
Important Dates/Events
Friday, March 21, 2014- No School- Professional
Development Day for teachers
Thursday, March 27, 2014 – Quarter 3 Math Benchmark
Assessment
Friday, March 28, 2014 – Camp Read S’more (more info
coming home soon J)
Friday, March 28, 2014- End of 3rd Card Marking
Period
Monday, February 24, 2014
Monday, February 24th
Welcome back from Mid-Winter Break! We had a busy couple of
weeks leading up to break and will be picking right back up from where we left
off in the coming weeks! Please make sure to pay special attention to the
Important Dates at the end of this news blog post.
Reader’s Workshop
In Workshop the past couple weeks we have zoomed in on text
features that are helpful to us as both readers and writers! We have taken a
look at transition words, juicy words, supporting details in texts and
illustrations that match the text. We have used several different mentor texts
to demonstrate these different features. Our students have been challenged to
find their own examples in their independent and partner-reading books. Our
Share Time at the end of workshop has been vital in reviewing our learning
target for the day, helping students to show their understanding of the text
features. As we move into our personal narrative unit in Writer’s Workshop,
being familiar with: transition words, juicy words, supporting details and
illustrations that match the text will help our writers’ to be more successful.
Just a reminder –
goal bags are NOT expected to be returned the next day and really should remain
home for several days. Please take time reviewing the book(s) in the bags
and focusing in on the goal. We are setting long-term goals. So while your
child might be able to for example, read with great expression noticing
punctuation with the text they brought home, please keep practicing this same goal with each additional book that comes
home. Most goals are strategies students
need to be practicing with an adult at home.
Writer’s Workshop
In Writer’s Workshop we have been working on drafting our
own personal narratives. Students generated seed lists for different
experiences and events that have happened in their own lives (such as a plane
ride to visit Grandma or a trip to get ice cream on a hot summer day). Students
then worked on illustrating a storyboard that gave details from the beginning,
middle and ending of their stories. Next we moved our writers’ into a series of
lessons about “Good Leads”. A lead is something a writer uses to hook their
audience. We have been working with writing: dialogue, setting, action, sound,
wondering and questioning leads for our narratives. It has been exciting to
confer with your children and see all of the growth they are making in their
writing. They too are eager to share their narratives with myself and with the
class.
Word Study
In Word Study we have taken time to practice working on making
contractions. While our students are able to piece together two words, such as
I and am to make “I’m” we are also looking to see a carry through in their
writing with this skill. We have spent time looking at ways to break
contractions apart into two words and how to put two words into one. We also
took a look at the –er and –est endings that you can add onto words. We drew
pictures to illustrate this concept. Last we took at look at writing words in the
past tense where you double the consonant and add the –ed ending. Students had
practicing making words where they needed to do this. An example would be
“skip”. To make the word “skip” in the past tense you simply double the “p” and
add “ed” to make skipped.
Math Workshop
We spent these last few weeks immersed in two and
three-dimensional shapes! We have talked about the features of both two and
three-dimensional shapes. We learned key vocabulary words like: parallel, line
segment, vertice, vertex, side, edge and face, as well as the names of many common
two and three-dimensional shapes. We have built shapes from marshmallows and
toothpicks. And we have compared three-dimensional shapes in a shape museum. We
have taken a lot of time in workshop to write about shapes – noticing
similarities and differences between shapes. Our students took their Unit 5
Assessment right before break.
Social Studies
In Social Studies we have been focusing on resources –
human, natural and capital resources. Students have learned the differences
through the homemade ice cream activity we did at school right before break. We
talked about all of the ingredients that went into making our ice cream as our
natural resources. We talked about the people involved in making the ice cream,
our human resources. Then we talked about the tools we used to do this, our
capital resources. The students LOVED making their own ice cream and many asked
for the recipe at home, so here goes:
In a gallon Ziploc bag, fill it half way with ice cubes and
6T of Kosher salt.
In a small, sandwich size Ziploc bag you need 1/2c. milk
(white or chocolate), 1T sugar and ¼ t. vanilla.
Zip up the smaller bag and place it inside of the big bag.
Then zip up the gallon sized bag and proceed to shake it for a minimum of 5
minutes. After awhile you will notice that the ingredients within the smaller
bag are getting a thicker consistency. Once you are done shaking up the big
bag, remove the smaller bag and wipe off all of the excess water and salt!
Then, you can open the smaller bag and enjoy the ice cream treat!
Science
Air and
Weather is the focus for the last science unit. The kids explored air
using cotton balls, feathers, straws, baggies, paper, styrofoam balls, and
balloons. Many interesting inventions were made… a dancing cotton ball in
the baggie and sucking up the objects using the straw, just to name a
few. The next lesson we made parachutes with napkins. We discussed
how air is ALL around the parachute, which helps it to land softly.
Important
Dates/Events
Monday, February 24-
SCHOOL RESUMES!
Tuesday, February 25
–
Wednesday, February
26 – Market Day in Social Studies for 203 and 204. Please make sure your
child returns the bottom portion of the flyer that came home for this day. Without
a parent’s signature, your child will not be able to participate in our Market
Day. We will not be making phone calls home if students are missing this paper.
Your child should have 10 small objects to sell for no more than $2. Please
make sure all items are labeled with a price tag. They can also bring $2 with
them in change for shopping purposes.
Thursday, February 27
– 100th Day of School! More info will come home, but
your child will need to dress up as if they were 100 years old on Thursday!
Nana Weckstein can’t wait to hang out with your old ladies and gents on
Thursday. Start thinking now about those outfits – get creative and have fun!
Friday, February 28 –
Economy Social Studies Test for 204. Study Guides came home before break.
Please make sure your child has reviewed the concepts and is able to identify
the terms in the glossary at the back of the packet.
Monday, February 3, 2014
January News :-)
Hello Weckie Parents!! What a month of January we
have been having!! Snow days, cold days, a field trip, oh my! There’s a lot of
info in the blog below as well as some fun pictures from our trip to the
Outdoor Center. A special thank you to the parents who helped chaperone as well
as to our parents who surprised us with chocolate chip cookies and hot cocoa
upon our return! A big thank you to: Mrs. Barber, Mrs. Fitrzyk, Mrs. Weedon,
Mrs. Gilmore, Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Goldberg! Though we’ve had multiple
disruptions this month, we have squeezed in a lot of learning!
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Reader’s Workshop
In the past two weeks we were able to dig deeper
into character traits. We used books by
Kevin Henkes and looked closely at the characters to examine the different
traits they had throughout the stories.
We found that Chrysanthemum and Wemberly Worried had both
similar traits and different. We have
also almost completed all reading assessments! Soon I will be realigning our
reading groups, reading partners and reading levels to fit our reader’s newest
text levels. It’s such a rewarding time
of year to see the progress being made among our students. Students will be determining and recording a
new reading goal for this quarter. The
goal bags will be coming home soon to help them work towards meeting these
goals. Please know that some of the
children have the same goals and it is common for a person to need continued
work in one area. Finally, we wrapped up
our week making connections to stories from students’ individual book
bins. Our goal is to begin making deeper
connections vs. surface ones. These
connections can draw deeper meaning from the texts.
Writer’s Workshop
We’ve taken opportunities to continue reading good
literature and examining the author’s craft used in creating it. Students continued to implement these into
their own writing. In addition, we began
pushing into our next writing unit which is personal narratives. We looked at many examples of narratives to
describe what it is we will be writing. Basically
we will be writing about our own personal experiences. This unit starts by asking students to
brainstorm lists of what we call seed ideas.
We explain that a good personal narrative is more like a small seed idea
that’s taken from a larger watermelon story.
For example, instead of writing about an entire trip to Michigan
Adventure, we could write about the experience of riding our first
rollercoaster. Ask your child about some
of his/her seed ideas. Maybe you could
make additional suggestions.
Word Study
Students were involved in several contraction
lessons. This is a lesson we will expect
students to apply into daily writing.
The main target of this was that when combining two words we use an
apostrophe in the spot where we remove letters.
We also worked on word chunks (ail, ain and an) and digraphs (sh, ch).
Math
It felt good to complete all of the study
preparation and testing including the Benchmark Assessment! Overall, our students performed well on this
BA. We now are beginning unit 5
(geometry). Please know that the unit
order changed with the common core.
Students learned about points and line segments and are exploring
polygons thus far.
Social Studies
In our local economy unit students continue learning
about producers/consumers and goods/services.
With the help of a beautiful story called Erandi’s Braids we also
taught about opportunity cost. The song
we learned to help us remember it is still stuck in my head! Of course it’s a cross between this song and
the Home on the Range, as it’s the tune of the song!
Science
Our plant unit is coming to an end! Students have truly enjoyed the hands on
learning included in this unit. Our unit
test will be this coming Thursday. Your
child should have brought home a study sheet on Friday. Please know that the grades for this unit
will be on the 3rd quarter report card.
Our field trip this past week was also centered on
science concepts for 2nd graders.
Mr. Reilly from the outdoor center did a great job in setting the stage
for our next weather unit.
Seven Habits
Our habit focus this month is “Win-win”. We love this one in the classroom!!! When two or more students are having an
argument or struggling with an issue, I remind them to think of a solution
where everyone wins. Try it out at home!
Important Info and Dates:
Report cards are available for viewing on February 5th. Please take time to review your child’s
successes and learning from this quarter.
I always suggest praise first and then make one goal for the next
quarter.
Feb. 4th: Dublin Staff vs.
Commerce Staff volleyball game at 6:30pm (Walled Lake Northern) Come see Mrs.
Weckstein play!!
Feb 5th: Report Cards are available
Social Studies homework due
Feb. 14th: Valentine's Day Party
Pennies for Leukemia/Lymphoma Society due
Feb. 17th-21st: No school/Winter Break
Social Studies homework due
Feb. 14th: Valentine's Day Party
Pennies for Leukemia/Lymphoma Society due
Feb. 17th-21st: No school/Winter Break
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Friday, December 13, 2013
Friday,
December 13, 2013
All the second graders have been busy these last few
weeks. The weather is getting colder and
children need to be prepared for school each day. So please help your child have boots, snow
pants, hats, mittens ready each day for outside recess. Gifts of Reading books need to be sent to
school this Tuesday, December 17th to open during our winter party.
Writer’s
Workshop
Our Summary unit is going strong. We have read many books and shared many good
examples of summary writing and talked about what a good summary should look
like. We used three books from the
series In The Days Of the Dinosaurs, two good examples were shared with the
class. The third book had the children
take a poor example and make it better.
A summary should include the beginning, middle, end, and the characters
names. We talked about The Fab Five:
who, wants what, what happens, what does the main character do, and then how
does it end. These help our writers
write a written summary piece about a book or chapter they have read in
complete detail. The students had the chance to try out their own summary. Before they began we talked about what makes
a great summary… not telling too much for each section.
Reader’s Workshop
These past few weeks in Reader’s Workshop we shifted our focus
onto punctuation we see within text. We’ve taken a specific look at the:
period, comma, quotation mark, exclamation mark, question mark, hyphen,
elipses, and apostrophe. Some readers
even found other punctuation marks during Reader’s Workshop to share with
others. We spent time creating a huge
anchor chart about: how the punctuation mark looks, what the job of the
punctuation mark is and gave examples of the punctuation mark used within
text. Our 2nd Grade Readers each created
their own smaller version of this anchor chart to keep in their Reader’s
Response Logs.
We’re also beginning to a take a closer look at dialogue and
strategies that help us as readers. When
students pre-read a story, they benefit greatly, it gives the reader background
knowledge of the story, which helps the reader make connections and predictions
even before they read the text. Pinky
and Rex books were used to look closely at dialogue. Reading partnerships had
to figure out who was talking by using the many clues given in the story. Some clues could be the simple word of said
or a more complex word of muttered. We
continued to use the terms simple dialogue, no-said dialogue, and continuation
dialogue when we dug deeper to figure out who was talking and how did we know?
Math Workshop
Second graders have spent a great deal of time learning
different strategies to solve addition problems, these strategies include using
base ten blocks pictures, partial-sum algorithms, and ballpark estimation. The mathematicians made two animal pictures
with base ten blocks. They had to write
the two numbers for each animal and then solve the difference, some kids even
added the numbers together. The
mathematicians are learning to add three or more numbers together. Students can use the number chart, draw tally
marks, mental math, number line, or parts-and-total diagram. Students practiced this skill by playing
Three Addends with their math partner.
We are moving on to multiplication, which goes nicely with
addition. Students are learning about
multiples of equal groups- 5 triangles = how many sides? 5x3=15 or count by
3’s. We are beginning to build math
arrays with chips, pictures, and geo boards. Our mathematicians are starting to
solve multiplication problems and write the number model too.
We have been working very hard this year on basic math facts,
please help your child with math facts up to 20.
Word
Study
Students made connections with words that had the same ending-
these are just a few examples: boxes & buses, looking & making, and
rain & plain. This continued with
the next lesson where the students played Go Fish with their phonics group and
had to match up word endings. We also
learned that sometimes two consonants letters stand for the consonant sound in
the middle of a word. The students
played Follow the Path to read and sound out new words. Students noticed parts of a word, which makes
it easier for them to break apart the word.
We used the word part – -ink and –ing to brainstorm words with these
endings. Then the students practiced
these words when they played Lotto.
Social
Studies
In Social Studies we are completing our unit on the geography
of our community. We are learning about
good and bad changes a community faces.
We also are working on finding absolute and relative locations on a
map. This is a challenging, but fun
concept for students. In addition to
winding down this unit, we are spending a short time each week looking at winter
holidays that people from our community may be celebrating.
Science
The botanists continue to observe their grass, brassica,
wheat, and the potato. The scientists
are always amazed at the growth our plants are making. These young minds are always ready to
learn. The potato has many roots and
continues to grow each day. Next week
students will be challenged to make a new plant from the stem cutting of a
mature plant. If you have any plant
cuttings, please send in next week.
We’ll continue to observe these over time.
Special
News & Reminders
· Monday, December 16th-Social Studies Test-
Room 202 & 205
· Thursday,
December 19th - Social Studies Test- Room 203
· Friday,
December 20th - Social Studies Test- Room 204
· Friday,
December 20th – All school sing a-long
at 2:30-3:00
· Friday, December
20th – classroom parties
· Winter Break-
December 21st- January 5th
· School starts- January 6th
· Thursday,
January 30th – 2nd Grade field trip to
the Walled Lake Outdoor Center- more details to follow
Saturday, November 23, 2013
November 22nd
Friday,
November 22nd
Writer’s
Workshop
We have started working on persuasive writing. Some of the great mentor texts we have been
reading are Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late and Click Clack Moo.
Your child has been working hard on their persuasive piece all week. They
pretended that they were a turkey and had to persuade people not to eat them
for Thanksgiving. They did a wonderful job, and we have hung them in the
hallway. We will continue to work on persuasive writing next week. Next, your
child will be choosing the topic and whom they would like to persuade.
Reader’s
Workshop
We are finishing up our study of dialogue. Your child has been working hard on being a
reading detective. Students searched
their books during independent reading for examples of different types of
dialogue. They learned about simple dialogue, no-said dialogue, and
continuation dialogue. We noticed one book can have all three different types
of dialogue such as Junie B Jones and Henry and Mudge! They have
also learned the difference between 1st person dialogue and 3rd person
dialogue. We will now be starting our punctuation unit. Your child will be
learning the names of punctuation marks, what the punctuation marks looks like,
the job of the punctuation marks, and examples from different texts.
Math
Workshop
We have begun unit four by taking the unit four pre-test. We
are working on story problems and different ways to solve them. They have
learned Change-to-More diagrams and Parts-and-Total diagrams to help them
organize and solve the story problems. Many of our story problems have involved
temperature changes. Your child has learned about degrees Fahrenheit, degrees
Celsius, and degree marks. Another math strategy we have been working on is
using estimation to solve problems. We have done this by using Ballpark Estimation.
This can be a difficult concept to learn, please continue to do HomeLinks with
your child.
Word
Study
We continued learning about Onsets and Rimes by looking at
words that end in -ice, -ide, and –ine. Then, we reviewed high frequency words
by playing Follow the Path. We also learned what antonyms are. They played Concentration,
which is like Memory using antonyms. We finished up the week with talking about
syllables. Students played Syllable Lotto. They also learned how to make
singular words plural using -s and -es endings.
Social
Studies
We are working on the Geography of Our Community Unit. As
cartographers, we made a pirate map of where there is buried treasure. We also
learned about man-made features and natural features on a map.
Special
News & Reminders
· Thursday,
November 28th – NO SCHOOL – Happy Thanksgiving!
· Friday,
November 29th – NO SCHOOL
· Monday,
December 2nd - NO SCHOOL
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