Week of: January 31st

 Upcoming Dates:

Jan. 31-Feb. 4: Parent/Teacher Conference Week - Thursday/Friday will have early dismissal at 11:00
Feb. 21: President's Day - No School
March 15: Teacher Institute Day - No School for Students
March 28-April 1: Spring Break!
April 15: No School Today

*Italics are repeated from last week's blog.
Reading: We are continuing our reading unit: "Studying Characters and Their Stories". This unit is all about characters and studying how they change and grow.  The students will be making lots of inferences and predictions in this unit! This week we will learn about how to hold onto our comprehension of a story once we are finished reading the entire story. We will also learn to figure out a story's central message and how that can be applied to our own lives. 

Writing: We will be continuing our writing unit: "Writing Gripping Fictional Stories". This unit is all about character and plot development.  The kids have so much fun making up their own characters and stories! This week we will work on writing a great closing for our stories as well as starting to think about publishing our best work!

Math:  This week we will continue our math module, Module 4: "Addition and Subtraction Within 200 with Word Problems to 100".  This is a huge module that covers several different strategies for adding and subtracting larger numbers. This week we will start working on subtracting using the "vertical way".  Many of us remember this strategy as "borrowing".  It will be familiar to the kids because we have already laid the groundwork for this strategy using the place value chart. 

Social Studies/Science:  We will continue our learning about having a growth mindset all year long.  We are continuing with our social studies unit: "The History of Technology".  This week the kids will continue to share the interviews that hey did over Winter Break.  This week we will focus on computers and encyclopedias! 
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Week of: January 24th

 Upcoming Dates:

Jan. 31-Feb. 4: Parent/Teacher Conference Week - Thursday/Friday will have early dismissal at 11:00
Feb. 21: President's Day - No School
March 15: Teacher Institute Day - No School for Students
March 28-April 1: Spring Break!
April 15: No School Today

*Italics are repeated from last week's blog.
Reading: We are continuing our reading unit: "Studying Characters and Their Stories". This unit is all about characters and studying how they change and grow.  The students will be making lots of inferences and predictions in this unit! This week we will learn about character traits. The kids will learn to think about the personalities of the characters in our stories as well as what makes them that way. We will also learn to find "text evidence" to support our ideas about characters.  Finally, we will talk about how to hold onto our comprehension of a story once we are finished reading the entire story. 

Writing: We will be continuing our writing unit: "Writing Gripping Fictional Stories". This unit is all about character and plot development.  The kids have so much fun making up their own characters and stories! This week we will spend some time editing our work for spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. We will also learn to add transition words when writing. 

Math:  This week we will continue our math module, Module 4: "Addition and Subtraction Within 200 with Word Problems to 100".  This is a huge module that covers several different strategies for adding and subtracting larger numbers. This week we will finish our work on subtracting while using the place value chart.  We will then move into adding the "vertical way".  That is the traditional way to add larger numbers and involved "carrying the one".  

Social Studies/Science:  We will continue our learning about having a growth mindset all year long.  We are starting our new social studies unit: "The History of Technology".  This week the kids will begin sharing the interviews that hey did over Winter Break.  They will learn how technology has changed over time! We have also continued to learn the locations of the 50 states.  This past week we added two more states: Utah (UT) and Colorado (CO).  
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Week of: January 18th

 Upcoming Dates:

Jan. 18-21: MAP Testing this week on Tuesday(reading) and Thursday(math)
Jan. 31-Feb. 4: Parent/Teacher Conference Week - Thursday/Friday will have early dismissal at 11:00
Feb. 21: President's Day - No School

*Italics are repeated from last week's blog.
Reading: We are continuing our reading unit: "Studying Characters and Their Stories". This unit is all about characters and studying how they change and grow.  The students will be making lots of inferences and predictions in this unit! This week we will learn about character traits. The kids will learn to think about the personalities of the characters in our stories as well as what makes them that way.

Writing: We will be continuing our writing unit: "Writing Gripping Fictional Stories". This unit is all about character and plot development.  The kids have so much fun making up their own characters and stories! The kids have really been enjoying this unit!  They have done a great job with their planning and now they are working hard to write their first drafts.  This week we will learn to add dialogue into our stories to make our characters come to life and talk with each other. 

Math:  This week we will continue our math module, Module 4: "Addition and Subtraction Within 200 with Word Problems to 100".  This is a huge module that covers several different strategies for adding and subtracting larger numbers. This week we will work on subtracting while using the place value chart.  The kids will learn to "regroup" and take from the tens place to make more ones.  They will also learn to take from the hundred's place to make more tens.  We remember this skills are "borrowing" when we were younger. 

Social Studies/Science:  We will continue our learning about having a growth mindset all year long.  We are continuing with our science unit: The States of Matter: Solids, Liquids, and Gases.  Last week we learned about what happens to liquids inside containers.  We learned that liquids take the shape of their containers and spread out on the bottom of the container.  We have also continued to learn the locations of the 50 states.  This past week we added one more state: Wyoming (WY).  Ask your child about "ManTan's body" and how he is saying "WHY do I need to do the dishes!?!". 
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Week of: January 10th

 Upcoming Dates:

Jan. 10-14: MAP Testing this week on Tuesday(reading) and Thursday(math)
Jan. 17: Dr. Martin Luther King Holiday - No School
Jan. 31-Feb. 4: Parent/Teacher Conference Week - Thursday/Friday will have early dismissal at 11:00
Feb. 21: President's Day - No School

*Italics are repeated from last week's blog.
Reading: We are continuing our reading unit: "Studying Characters and Their Stories". This unit is all about characters and studying how they change and grow.  The students will be making lots of inferences and predictions in this unit! This week we will learn to plan ahead and find spots in our books where we will stop and jot down our thoughts and predictions. We will also spend some time reviewing what we have already learned in this unit up until this point. 

Writing: We will be continuing our writing unit: "Writing Gripping Fictional Stories". This unit is all about character and plot development.  The kids have so much fun making up their own characters and stories! We have been spending some time planning out our first stories.  This week will get actually start to write our first drafts!  We will work on writing good leads and using descriptive language in our writing!

Math:  This week we will continue our math module, Module 4: "Addition and Subtraction Within 200 with Word Problems to 100".  This is a huge module that covers several different strategies for adding and subtracting larger numbers. This week we will continue working on adding using the place value chart as a tool.  At the end of the week, I will introduce subtraction using the place value chart as well!

Social Studies/Science:  We will continue our learning about having a growth mindset all year long.  We are continuing with our science unit: The States of Matter: Solids, Liquids, and Gases.  Last week we learned about the different behavior of molecules in solids, liquids, and gases.  We also learned that temperature can cause the state of matter to change (For example: ice melts into water and then boils and becomes a gas).   We have also continued to learn the locations of the 50 states.  This past week we added three more states: Nebraska (NE), North Dakota (ND), and South Dakota (SD).  Ask your child about the "New Basket" of vegetables that the chef plans on adding to his soup and also where he hangs up his cooking coats!
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