ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS:
Please remember to send your child to school with all of their winter gear. They need boots, hats, mittens, snow pants, and coats to be able to play at recess. Also, please remember to send in a pair of sneakers for your child to change into after recess. It helps keep are classroom a little cleaner :) Thank you!
This Wednesday is an early release day. Please plan accordingly.
Next week, we will be starting an engineering project and we need your help! If you could please send in:
paper towel rolls, yogurt cups, tissue boxes, cereal boxes, cracker boxes, or any other item made out of chip board...
It would be greatly appreciated. We would like to have all donations by Friday, please. Thank you!
Team Howard also owes a big thank you to Mrs. Meek from Miss Davis’ class. She generously gave up her time and prepared materials for us for a bridge kit engineering lesson. She taught Team Howard all about the parts of a bridge, the different kinds of bridges, and how to make a bridge. You probably saw the finished products your child brought home last week. This activity was incredibly challenging but Team Howard persevered and met their goal!
THIS WEEK IN...
Spelling: We are working on unit 9. The words are: its, who, now, people, and my.
Phonics: We are working with the long /o/ sound with the spelling patterns o, oa, oe, and ow. Our focus words are: most, told, soap, foam, toast, toe, goes, grow, mow, and crow.
Vocabulary: Our new words are: imaginary, uniform, practices, starting, tryouts, and coach.
Comprehension: This week, we will review how to make inferences when we read. When we make an inference we take what we read and what we already know (our schema) and make a decision about the story. We’ll practice this skill while we read There’s Nothing Like Baseball by Angela Johnson.
Grammar: This week, we’ll talk all about contractions! A contraction is where you take two words and combine them into one smaller word with an apostrophe. For example, do not becomes don’t.
Writing: This week, we will practice beginning our writing in many different ways. Sometimes we’ll use dialogue. Sometimes we’ll use action. Sometimes we’ll use something else! The power of a great beginning is crucial when it comes to great writing. We’ll search for example in children’s literature and then we’ll practice different ways to start some of our own stories.
Math: Today, we unpacked our new group of standards that focus on place value. Here are the standards we will now focus on.
I can understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent the amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones, in a number. I also understand that numbers can be represented as bundles of 100, bundles of 10, and bundles of 1.
Example: In the number 732, there are 7 hundreds, 3 tens, and 2 ones. We also see 7 bundles of 100, 73 bundles of 10, and 732 bundles of 1.
I can skip count within 1,000 by 5s, 10s, and 100s.
Example: Starting at the number 425...
Skip counting by 5s: 425, 430, 435, 440, 445, 450, 455, 460
Skip counting by 10s: 425, 435, 445, 455, 465, 475, 485, 495
Skip counting by 100s: 425, 525, 625, 725, 825, 926, 1,025
I can read and write three digit numbers in numerals, number names, and expanded form.
Example:
Numerals: 425
Number names: four hundred twenty five
Expanded form: 400 + 20 + 5
I can compare two three-digit numbers using >, <, and =
Example:
425 > 349
425 < 972
425 = 425
We will also continue with our flexible groups for math facts. In your child’s group, they are receiving direct instruction on what they need most to be able to add and subtract fluently within 20.
Science: Tomorrow, we will be having Outdoor Science with Mrs Letieqc. She’ll be going over some expectations of what Outdoor Science will look like and also expectations around using the Outdoor Classroom. She’ll be back to visit us various times this year to help enrich our science curriculum.
We’re also going to start a new unit on matter. Matter is all around us! We categorize matter into three categories: solids, liquids, and gases. This week, we’ll learn about the differences between the categories as well as some examples that fit each category. Then, we’ll be reading Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss. We’ll use the story as inspiration to create our very own oobleck! Our job as scientists will be to decide whether oobleck is a solid or a liquid. I’ll let you in on a little hint... it’s both! Watch this sweet video to understand a little bit more about what I’m talking about:
Read Aloud: Today, we started a fun new genre... mystery! We are reading A-Z Mysteries: The Missing Mummy. While we read the story, we will keep track of clues, suspects, and the mystery itself in our very own detective notebooks. Hopefully our information will help us solve the mystery of the missing mummy!
Early Release Fun: After reading The Missing Mitten Mystery by Stephen Kellogg, we’ll design our very own pair of mittens. Then we’ll practice our descriptive writing skills while we write four sentences describing our mittens. Hopefully our descriptions have enough details because... YIKES!... our mittens will go missing too!
