- I hope everyone has another great 3 day weekend! These short weeks make for very full days in our classroom! Please be sure to be reading every night and weekends and note that the nightly reading has been bumped from 20 minutes to 30 minutes. Make sure to be logging all of your reading on your Six Flags Reading Log that went home in early December and also on Biblionasium for the Tiger Reading Challenge. Once your student has read for 6 total hours they will receive a FREE ticket to Six Flags. Those logs will be due on Wednesday, January 31st.
- If you have not yet returned the Terrific Thursday folder or the report card envelope please be sure to do that by the end of this week!
- Target Families:
Congratulations to the following students who received perfect attendance for our class for the 2nd 9 weeks:
Yusuf Alturkmani
Royal Randolph
Samuel Trocano
Important Dates:
January 15th- MLK Day- No School
January 19th- Bingo Night
January 23rd- Willy's Spirit Night
January 26th- All Pro Dads
February 9th- International Night
February 14th- Candy Grams
February 16th- Dress Down Day $1
February 19th- 23rd- Mid Winter Break
February 27th- Los Bravos Night
Below you will find an outline of the topics we will be covering in class this week. Please be sure to check and initial the agenda every night and that your child is reading each evening for thirty minutes. Please don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions! :)
- Reading: Fairy Tales Unit
- Guided Reading: Uses reader's theater to deepen our comprehension and fluency
- Phonics Focus: Soft C
- Fluency- Reading like we talk, changing our voice when reading quotes
- Elements of a Fairy Tale, Story Structure, Asking and Answering Questions
- Daily 5 Centers
- Read to Self, Read to Someone, Word Work, Work on Writing, Listen to Reading
- Learned Words
- look
- what
- your
- here
- make
- white
- Writing: Opinion Writing
- How to state and support your opinion with reasons and examples
- Grammar Focus: Expanding our sentences
- How to state and support your opinion with reasons and examples
- Social Studies:
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Key Vocabulary: Segregation, Desegregation, Boycott, Protest, Non-violent, Civil Rights
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Math:
- Addition and subtraction strategies within 1,000
- Adding up to four 2-digit numbers using partial sums strategy
- This quarter we will continue to work on addition and subtraction using the same strategies introduced last quarter but now the numbers we use will be within 1,000 rather than 100. (2 digit vs 3 digit). Please refer to the curriculum tutorial videos for a refresher or don't hesitate to email me if you have any question.s
- Please do not teach your child the standard algorithm (Carrying and borrowing). This is not yet developmentally appropriate or conceptual for their understanding.
- Adding up to four 2-digit numbers using partial sums strategy
- Continued practice of word problems
- Please continue to work on 2 digit by 2 digit addition and subtraction within 100
- Example: 24+48=_____ 96-79=____
- Strategies: Base 10, Place Value, Numberline, Expanded form, Partial Sums
- Example: 24+48=_____ 96-79=____
- Number talks will focus on adding and subtracting groups of 10 and 100;
- Please continue to count your pennies, nickles, and dimes and practice telling time to the nearest hour and half hour.