There will be no school tomorrow as it is Veterans Day. Be sure to thank a veteran for their service!
Homework packets are due on Thursday! Please remind your child to put it back in their backpack on Wednesday evening. Remember... no homework packet = no free choice Friday.
Mrs. Thibodeau will be visiting with us this Friday! Her friends Kelso and George will be tagging along as well. We’ll learn more about Kelso’s choices and how to solve the small problems we might encounter when we are playing with our friends.
Please remember to send your child to school with their coats. Even hats and mittens have come to the rescue recently! With our early recess, we have had to deal with some of the cooler temperatures during the day.
If you have not done so already, please remember to send the Flat Stanley page back to school with the name and address of someone who would be willing to participate in this project. If you do not know someone who lives in a different state or different part of Maine, please let me know and I will find someone for your child to write to. We need everyone’s addresses before we can begin this project. Please contact me if you have any questions.
THIS WEEK IN...
Phonics: We are working with the long /i/ sound. We are practicing the spelling patterns igh, ie, i, and y. Here are our focus words: light, sight, high, wild mind, dry, cry, try, tie, and lie.
Spelling: We are focusing on unit 6 this week. The words are: into, has, more, her, and two. We’ll practice spelling these words as well as using them correctly in a sentence.
Vocabulary: Our new words are: peered, giggled, snuggled, fluttered, vanished, and recognized. We’ll define these words and build connections to them. Then, we’ll search for them in a short story called “Leo Grows Up” by Kevin Lee.
Comprehension: We will focus on two skills this week. First, we will focus on making inferences. When you make an inference you make a decision based on clues in the story and what you already know. We’ll also focus on story elements. Team Howard will practice identifying the title, characters, setting, beginning, middle, end, problem, solution, and moral of the story. We’ll practice these skills while we read Farfallina and Marcel by Holly Keller.
Writing: This week we will focus on writing and publishing a personal narrative. Here is what students will be expected to show in their writing: I can reread my writing to check for mistakes and places where I could make my writing better.
I have a good topic sentence that gets my reader’s attention and introduces my writing.
My story goes in order and makes sense. I use transition words.
My story gives lots of details that make a picture in my reader’s mind.
I used some interesting words to make my writing fun to read.
My sentences start with a capital letter.
I have correct ending punctuation.
Most of my words are spelled correctly.
I have a good closing sentence that brings my writing to a nice end.
Team Howard will be writing “Ouch!” stories while they practice these things. Their story will tell us all about a time that they got hurt. I, for one, am so excited to hear what they come up with.
Grammar: This week we will work with possessive nouns. A possessive noun shows who or what has something. To do this, we add an apostrophe and an s to a singular noun to make it possessive. Here are some examples: duck’s, cow’s, Joe’s, Sally’s, cat’s, etc.
Fluency: This week, I will be reading a great book that will help us understand what fluency really means. The book is called Wolf! by Becky Bloom. In the story, a wolf is determined to become a better reader. First, he reads too slow. Then, he reads too fast! Finally, he learns how to read at an appropriate pace and with his very own style. After reading the book, Team Howard will work with partners and practice different fluency passages so that they may find their own style too!
Math: We are continuing our adventure with fractions! Each day we are practicing how to divide circles and rectangles into two, three, and four equal parts. A big focus has been to use fraction words when describing these parts (halves, thirds, and fourths). We will also do a lot of work with writing fractions correctly. We’re even using big fraction words like numerator and denominator! We will also continue to focus on how to say each fraction (i.e. one half, one third, one fourth, etc.)
Scholastic News: With Thanksgiving right around the corner, we will be reading about the first Thanksgiving. Did you know that the first Thanksgiving happened almost 400 years ago? After reading about the meal between the Native Americans and the Pilgrims, we’ll use a chart to answer questions about how Pilgrims cooked and ate.
Read Aloud: We just finished Flat Stanley’s original adventure. We will continue to travel with Stanley in Stanley, Flat Again! by Jeff Brown. After Stanley Lambchop goes flat again, he uses his flatness to win a sailboat race and rescue a classmate from a collapsed building.
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