Friday September 15
Happy Friday Families. Alexa would you all to know that you may now sign up for parent teacher interviews that are on Thursday September 21 from 4-6:16 and Friday morning from 8:-11:45. Thank you for this reminder Alexa!
Art: This week we finished our sketching portraits. They are currently hanging in the hallway outside our classroom.
Reading: We have started guided reading this week. We have added 4 strategies to our CAFE menu: check for understanding, back track and read again, flip the sound and voracious reading. Please ask your child what voracious mean.
Writing: We have been working on writing our memories and stories about summer adventures. We have also been working on writing about topics that we are experts on. Some of these topics include: animals, math, gymnastics, family and food. Our writing process currently consists of
1.Choose a topic
2. organize your ideas
3. write an interesting first sentence
4.write your story
5. write a closing sentence
Next week we are going to learn how to write climbing stories. This is a way to teach fiction writing.
Math: Each math lesson starts with a Number Talk. I put a question on the smart board and each student works on solving the question in their head. After a few minutes we discuss different strategies for solving the problem. This aligns nicely with our school development plan of improving mental math strategies.
We have also been working with 3 digit numbers writing them in standard and expanded form. Please have your child show you how to write 345 in expanded form.
Social Studies - we are continuing to work on learning about the rights of the child. We have learned many interesting things such as every child has the right to play, go to school, have a home, have a name, have a family, to have food, to be safe, to have clean water and access to a doctor. We have also learned that these rights are not available to every child in every country.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Art: This week we finished our sketching portraits. They are currently hanging in the hallway outside our classroom.
Reading: We have started guided reading this week. We have added 4 strategies to our CAFE menu: check for understanding, back track and read again, flip the sound and voracious reading. Please ask your child what voracious mean.
Writing: We have been working on writing our memories and stories about summer adventures. We have also been working on writing about topics that we are experts on. Some of these topics include: animals, math, gymnastics, family and food. Our writing process currently consists of
1.Choose a topic
2. organize your ideas
3. write an interesting first sentence
4.write your story
5. write a closing sentence
Next week we are going to learn how to write climbing stories. This is a way to teach fiction writing.
Math: Each math lesson starts with a Number Talk. I put a question on the smart board and each student works on solving the question in their head. After a few minutes we discuss different strategies for solving the problem. This aligns nicely with our school development plan of improving mental math strategies.
We have also been working with 3 digit numbers writing them in standard and expanded form. Please have your child show you how to write 345 in expanded form.
Social Studies - we are continuing to work on learning about the rights of the child. We have learned many interesting things such as every child has the right to play, go to school, have a home, have a name, have a family, to have food, to be safe, to have clean water and access to a doctor. We have also learned that these rights are not available to every child in every country.
Have a wonderful weekend!
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