December 15th

By Brock and Savannah

Reading
We read about penguins.We read Moosletoe. We did contraction caterpillar.

Working hard on a word sort

Penguin research on our laptops

Writing
We wrote a letter to Kacy the .V.I.P.we wrote a letter to Santa.we did Friday journal.

Writing letters to Santa. We will send the letters to the Make A Wish Foundation. For each letter they receive they will donate $1.

Working hard on Tacky the Penguin stories.

Math                                                                                                                                                     We did counting money.We did exit slip.  

Addition from Mrs. Cox-- We have been working on making change. For example: If I buy gum for $0.30, I gave the cashier $1, how much change will I get back? 

We will start doing problems beyond a dollar. "I buy a pack of gum for $0.30, and a book for $1.20.  If I give the cashier $2.000 how much change will I get back?"


Social Studies                                                                                                                                            How to be a good shopper. Match the symbol to the key (with mapping).    

                                                                                                                                                     

December 5th

By Kacy & Kamden

Reading  
We did reading about penguins. We did contractions like we're means we are.

Penguin article that we read throughout the week.

Looking for the main idea of each paragraph

Snowman summary. Working on beginning/middle/end/problem/solution

Writing 
We did how to writing. How to make snowman.

Enjoying "how-to hot chocolate" while writing

Math 
We did measurement. we did measure Olympics. we measured shot put, long jump, and high jump.

Practicing measuring with a foot

Measuring using inches and centimeters

Long Jump in measurement Olympics

Shot Put

Social Studies.
We  learned about services. We did a service and goods poster.

Service Street and Goods Road activity

November 14th

By Carter and Ava

Reading
We have been learning about important information and interesting details.We have been writing more in are reading response journals.

Writing

We have been learning about writing more in are story and writing about are pet's.

Math

 In math  we have been learning about time and we have been learning about elapsed time.

Social Studies

We have been learning about good's and how good's can be brought to us.

October 31st

Reading

We spent all week studying Spiders! Our reading groups read a magazine article about spiders and worked on identifying main idea and details from each section. 

The students also split into groups and each group researched a different type of spider and created a poster about their learning.

Ask which spider they researched! What are some new spider facts they learned?

Writing

This week we read I Will Never, Not Ever, Eat a Tomato. After reading this book the  students created lists of the things they liked/did not like and wrote a story from this list. We discussed how they could choose something they didn't like and tell the story behind why they don't like that thing, or they could choose a like and tell about about the reasons that they like it.

The class has also been continuing to work on our "No Excuse Writing": word wall words spelled correctly, punctuation in every sentence, capital letters only where they are needed.

Write a letter to a grandparent, help your child make sure that they have correct capitals and punctuation.

Math

This week we learned some new games to help practice subtraction facts. The class played halves concentration and 3-in-a-row (which practices -10 strategies). We also really hit hard the using 10 to help us subtract.

At home: Try using flashcards or playing math games on the computer to help build those addition facts to be automatic. Once students master those they will move on to subtraction.

Working on the number of the day

Playing our new math game: Halves concentration

Social Studies

We started our unit on using the environment. We read about what natural resources are, how people use the environment for shelter, food and clothing. Then we did an activity where they looked at an ocean environment and pretended they were dropped off in the middle of it and needed to use the environment to create their own food, shelter and clothing. 

Next week we will begin discussing how people hurt the environment, and what we can do to help.

Extras

With our focus on Anti-Bullying this week the kids were able to dress up in some pretty fun outfits! It was fun to come to school each day and see their creativity. 

After reciting our bucket filler pledge each day we discussed how we could be bucket fillers and not bucket dippers (or bullies).

Ask your child what they've learned about bullying, and how they can help to stop it.

October 24th

Reading

This was a review week for reading strategies. We read an article about bats. We practiced doing close reads where we read the same article 3 times. The first time the kids read it for important words, the 2nd time for interesting facts, and the 3rd time for something new they learned. 

The next day we discussed asking and answering questions using text evidence. The students answered the questions on the back of the article, but first they had to highlight the part of the text that answered the question.

The last day the students used the text to identify the main idea and details and made trees with what they learned.

Doing their close read of the bats article

Main idea/details tree

Searching for text evidence to answer their questions

Choose an informational book to read with your child. Have them tell you what the book is about and 3 things they learned while reading it.

Writing

Our goal this week was to write longer stories! One way to do this is to plan out what you're writing before you start. 

Monday/Tuesday the students wrote about a fun activity they did outside. Kids wrote about bike rides, sports, and camping trips.

Thursday/Friday they wrote about a fantasy trip. It was really fun to read what they came up with, and to see their great imaginations at work! The students will continue this writing next week since we didn't get a c
hance to finish it this week.

Math

In math we are working on connecting our addition and subtraction facts. We practiced a lot with fact families. So if a child knows 3+5=8 then they know 8-3=5 and 8-5=3. 

We also discussed using the counting up and counting back strategies for subtraction. Some groups practiced using bigger numbers (67-32) to practice skip counting up and back to figure out the answers mentally.

Science

In science we wrapped up our forces and motion unit! The kids really enjoyed it and were engaged in all of our learning. 

Extras

On Friday we had a Read-In. It was so much fun seeing all of the books that were brought in!
We did a read aloud while kids were comfy on their blankets and pillows, the kids read around the room, and did book talks. We also watched Stellaluna since that was one of the bat books that we had read this week.