Upcoming Dates:
Jan. 23 - Technology Interview Due
Jan. 26 - Opera for the Young - assembly at school
Feb. 6-10 - Parent/Teacher Conference Week (11:00 dismissal on Thurs./Fri.)
Feb. 20 - President's Day - No School
March 27-31 - Spring Break - No School
*Italics are repeated from last week's blog.
Reading: We are starting a new reading unit this week: "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! First, we will learn about character traits and how to "stop and jot" to make predictions. We will also work on writing complete answers to questions about our reading using the R.A.C.E. Strategy. You can click here to learn more about the RACE Strategy.
Writing: We will be continuing our writing unit: "Writing Gripping Fictional Stories". This unit is all about character and plot development. The kids always have so much fun making up their own characters and stories! This week we will be developing our characters and giving them their very own character traits. The kids will also work on developing the setting for their stories. Finally, we will think of problems and solutions for our stories!
Writing: We will be continuing our writing unit: "Writing Gripping Fictional Stories". This unit is all about character and plot development. The kids always have so much fun making up their own characters and stories! This week we will be developing our characters and giving them their very own character traits. The kids will also work on developing the setting for their stories. Finally, we will think of problems and solutions for our stories!
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. Next week we will continue to work on representing addition problems with place value drawings and making new tens. We will also be starting to do the same thing with subtraction and breaking apart a ten to make 10 ones. We all remember this as "borrowing". Will start to think about this topic using manipulatives. It is important for the kids to understand why it works before memorizing the subtraction rules.
Social Studies/Science: We will continue our learning about having a growth mindset all year long. However, we are also working on a science unit about the States of Matter: Solids, Liquids, and Gases. We have switched from focusing on solids to now focusing on liquids. This week we will explored all the different properties of liquids. These properties included: transparent, translucent, has color, bubbly, foamy, and viscous. We have also continued to learn the locations of the 50 states. This past week we were able to squeeze in an extra lesson on the states and we learned a total five new states: OK, KS, NE, ND, and SD. Ask your child where Chef MIMAL hangs up his coats in the kitchen!