ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS:
Today was our first hands-on science lesson with Mrs. Letiecq and Mr. Vallaincourt. We had a blast! Ask your child about some of the games we played today (acting out different kinds of matter, red/light green light with matter, etc.).
Some of the team got a little chilly during our science lesson today. Please remember to send your child to school with the appropriate outdoor gear EVERY MONDAY! If you do not have something for your child, please let me know and I will make sure they have what they need when they get to school.
Students should bring:
HAT
GLOVES
SNOW PANTS
COATS
This Wednesday is an early release day. Please plan accordingly.
All homework packets are due on Thursday! Please help your child put their packet back into their backpacks on Wednesday evenings. Remember: no homework = no free choice Friday!
Mrs. Thibodeau will be visiting us again on Friday. She’ll bring her friends George and Kelso to talk more about healthy choices.
Next week is a three-day week. There will be no school on Monday as we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. There will be no school for students on Friday since it is records day for teachers.
This week in...
Spelling: We are working with unit 14. The words are: get, through, back, much, and go.
Phonics: We are working with the following digraphs: /th/, /sh/, /ch/, and /wh/. Here are our focus words: chest, chase, chill, shape, sheep, thing, think, white, while, and wheat.
Vocabulary: Our new words are ancient, hopeful, unable, confirm, and valid. We’ll define these words and build connections to them. Then, we’ll read two short stories called “A Very Old Fish” and “Boy Finds Fossils” and search for our new vocabulary words.
Comprehension: We will practicing summarizing a text. When we summarize, we retell only the most important facts. When we read, we’ll pay special attention to what each part of the selection is about. Then, we can use these main ideas to create a summary for the entire selection. We’ll practice this skill while we read Meet the Supercroc.
Grammar: This week will focus on past-tense verbs. Past-tense verbs describe an action that takes place in the past. We had -ed to most verbs to tell about a past action. For example, we’ll change cook to cooked to show that it already happened.
Writing: This week, we’ll practice descriptive writing with a fun project. The title of the project is “Oh, no! What’s in my cocoa!” The students will visualize something silly has fallen into their cup of hot cocoa. They will have to write three descriptive sentences so the rest of the class can guess what it is. Here is an example:
- It has a lot of feathers.
- It is a nocturnal animal.
- It can turn its head almost all the way around.
Can you guess what it is? It’s an owl!
Social Studies: This week, we’ll finish up our maps and globes books. We’ll also watch a few videos that highlight the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. After discussing the videos, we’ll write about dreams of our own and how we plan to make them come true. Here are the links to some of the videos we’ll be watching:
Scholastic News: To go along with our mini study on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we’ll read an issue titled “How Can Walking Change the World?” The article will tell us more about Martin as a child and how his dream came to be. We’ll use what we know from the article to answer questions about the text.
Math: This week, we’ll be doing a little bit about a lot of topics! We’ll review money. We’ll practice identifying coins and their values as well as adding sums up to $1.00. We’ll also review how to tell time to the nearest five minutes. Then, we’ll continue our practice with math facts. This week, I’ll be assessing all students to find which math fact families they will need the most help memorizing. We’ll play games and do different activities to help us with the math fact family that we need the most help with. Finally, we’ll have some more practice with our place value standards. This week, we’ll build our names using tens and ones blocks. Then, we’ll find the value of our names. We’ll also practice writing numbers in five different ways: standard form, word form, expanded form, picture form, and in a place value chart. We’ll practice building numbers and identifying the hundreds, tens, and ones place by playing a fun new game called bull’s eye.
Read Aloud: We have started our new mystery book, Cam Jansen and the Snowy Day Mystery. Team Howard detective’s are keeping track of the mystery, clues, and suspects in their detective notebooks while they read. We’ll use our notebooks to help us solve the mystery of the three missing computers.
Have a great week!
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