Weekly Update

 Update for the Week of November 28th       

Special Schedule:   Monday: Music   Tuesday: STEM   Wednesday: Art  Thursday: PE. Friday: Music

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NOTES

1. I hope everyone had time to relax over the last 4 days.

2. We have a normal 5 day week! 

3. A new journal for homework is coming home this week. The prompts have changed and the book is larger, so I hope it helps. Please make sure your child writes in pencil.  We will be practicing where to start writing on the page and when to skip lines when writing a response. 

What we are working on.

Reading: 

• Reading and spelling silent e words, 2 syllable words, and suffixes to silent e words

• Reading nonfiction books and doing the following: 

• Activating background knowledge before reading.

• Looking for text features like table of contents and captions.

• Identifying the main idea.

• Becoming an active reader through questioning. 

Writing:

• Writing nonfiction All About Books. What they are experts at.

• We will start doing a shared research writing project on dolphins.

• Always looking at grammar - Uppercase letters, end marks, nouns, verbs,  adjectives and the 4 types of sentences

Math:

• Number Corner:Continuing telling time on the analogue clock, looking at shape attributes like number of sides and vertices, measuring length, and explaining how double and doubles plus 1 facts help us.

• Bridges Math: 

• Learning how to use an open number line to solve 2-digit addition and subtraction problems.  

• Quickly identifying numbers represented by groups of tens and ones and learning to split 2-digit numbers into tens and ones to support adding and subtracting

• Always explaining how we solved a math problem using math language. 

Science/Social Studies:

•  We will start learning about the 7 continents and 5 major oceans while learning about different animals on the continents.

Pictures from last week.

Our Thankful Tree Forest- They were so excited about putting their thankful trees together to make a forest.

Working on our Thankful Trees.