ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS:
Homework packets are always due on MONDAY and a new one will be sent home on Monday afternoon. Hopefully everyone has been able to find a routine that helps homework time go smoothly.
Please remember to sign and return your child's permission slip for this week's field trip! We are going to Memorial School to visit with our second grade friends and also to see an artist visiting from Mexico. We need all permission slips by WEDNESDAY!
Please remember to send back your preferences for conferences. The schedule will be made on a first come, first serve basis. Also, please send any questions you have for me ahead of time. That way, I will be able to gather the materials and dedicate time to answer your questions.
We will be having bus safety on Wednesday! We'll be reviewing all of the rules that help us stay safe on the bus whether we take the bus every day or if we take the bus for a field trip.
Our first spelling test will be on Friday! Students will be asked to spell the word correctly and to use it appropriately in a sentence.
This week in...
Spelling: We are working on unit 1. The words are: your, there, can, an, and we.
Phonics: This week we are focusing on the short o, e, and u sound. Here are our focus words: went, tell, pet, job, fog, not, tug, hut, tub, and bun. We'll sort and spell these words together. Then, we'll complete an activity that helps us practice the words again.
Vocabulary: Our new words are: share, wonderful, company, delighted, thinning, and enjoyed. We'll define these words, use them in a sentence, and build connections to them. Then, we'll search for them in the short story called "Making Muffins and a Friend" by Vanessa Lavin.
Comprehension: Our focus skill will be to analyze the plot. The plot is the events that take place in the story. It gives the story a beginning, middle, and end. In the beginning, you learn that a character has a problem. In the middle, something happens to solve the problem. In the end, the problem is usually solved. We'll practice identifying beginning, middle, and end while we read Mr. Putter and Tabby Pour the Tea by Cynthia Rylant.
Writing: This week, we will finish up our dream house projects. So far, students have sketched their dream houses and have answer questions about their dream house such as where is it located, who do you live with, what does your house look like, and why is it special? This week, the team will finish designed their houses.
We'll also have some fun with riddles. The team will answer questions about themselves such as what color hair do you have, what color eyes do you have, are you a girl or a boy, and what letter does your name start with? Then, they'll create a picture of themselves and cover it with a ghost costume. The team will have to use the clues that the writers have given us to decide who is under the ghost costume.
Finally, we'll begin brainstorm some small moments that could turn into stories. At a recent workshop, the Russell School teachers were introduced to the idea that students should be writing "seed" stories and not "watermelon" stories. For example, a watermelon story might be going to the pool with your family. A seed story might be the time that you jumped off the diving board. Seed stories are just small moments that writers have expanded. We'll take a look at some example together and then we'll have a chance to begin some of our own stories.
Read Aloud: As we finish up Charlotte's Web, we will move into the fabulous story called Chocolate Fever. It's a great story about a boy who eats nothing but chocolate until one day he breaks out in chocolate hives! The doctors say it's a case of chocolate fever! The story takes us on his adventure behind getting rid of this mysterious illness.
Math: We will continue our graphing adventure! We'll continue to practice reading both bar graphs and pictographs and interpreting the data we see. Then, we'll use this data to answer some specific questions. We'll do this as a class and independently. We are getting closer and closer to the end of our journey and when we do, we'll take our final challenge to see if we're ready to take the next trail up Mount Mathmore!
Science: This week, we'll continue our study of continents, landforms, and bodies of water. We need to be experts in case Pete and Penelope write to us again!
Have a great week!
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