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Weekly Update

Actually this is a two week update since, I didn’t post an update last week.

Commuication Arts

Reading:  We have started reading in leveled Guided Reading Groups (We call them Book Clubs).  The groups read books that are on their level.  Last week we worked on Fix-up strategies to help them with figuring out new words they come to.  This week we focused on reading comprehension strategies:  Making Connections, Ask Questions, Visualize, Predict/Infer, Determine Importance, Synthesize/Summarize.  Each strategy has a job that they do in their Reading Response Journal.

Writing:  We are proofreading our “All About Me” 5-paragraph essays and displaying them on our lockers.  We have started collecting writing ideas in our “Seeds” writing notebooks.  We have also been doing some journal writing in our “Try It” writing notebooks.

Spelling:  You have been seeing the words for each week posted here.  After we record the scores from the spelling tests in our Student Data Folders, we will bring the tests home.

Math

All of out 1st Quarter objectives are in Unit 1, so we have already taken our Quarter one final assessment.  We are just finishing unit 2 about adding and subtracting whole numbers.  We have learned to extend basic + & – facts to larger numbers.  We also learned ways to apply the steps of problem solving to math story problems.  The kinds of stories we learned to solve were Part-and-Total Number Stories with two or more addends, Change Number Stories, Comparison Number Stories.  We learned how to add and subtract large numbers using Partial-Sum, Trades-first, and Adding-up Algorithms.  We’ll review and take the Unit 2 test next week.

Life cycle

Science

We are wrapping up our Plants Kit.  Our Wisconsin Fast Plants have almost finished going through their complete life cycle.  We will soon review and take our final test

over the unit.

Social Studies

We alternate between Science and Social Studies and we have only had time for Social Studies so far.  We will start doing Social Studies 2nd Quarter after we finish our Plants kit.

Week 6: What We’ll Learn

This is what we plan to learn this week.

Reading:  We will hopefully start our “Book Clubs” this week.  Our Comprehension Strategy this week is Summarizing.

Writing:  We will organize our Writing Notebooks and begin learning how to discover and develop new ideas for writing.

Science:  We will use the Scientific Method to prove what plants truly need for survival, discover how pollination works,  create models of plants that show how water moves through it, and describe what the major parts of a plant do for it.

Math:
Monday:  Lesson 2-2 Extensions of Addition and Subtraction Facts.
Tuesday:  Lesson 2-3 “What’s My Rule”
Thursday: Lesson 2-4 Parts-and-Total Number Stories

December Parent Newsletter

Here is the link to my December Parent Newletter.  You can also find the link to it on the right sidebar under  the “Parents” heading.

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