Lots of great stuff happening next week! Remember--no school Monday!
Reading- "Lon Po Po"--a great version of "The Little Red Riding Hood." We will be comparing and contrasting like texts in speaking, listening, reading and writing activities this week! We will hear multiple version of "The Little Red Riding Hood" and enjoy other folk and fairy tales throughout the week! We will also continue our work on adjectives--this time working on comparative (more) and superlative (most).
Math- We are continuing work in Geometry. We will talk about quadrangles (2 dimensional, 4 vertices, 4 sides, and 4 angles). Talk about different quad- words with your children to see if they recognize the similarities! (Quadruplets, quadrant, quadrilateral, quadruple, quadrupled) We will also continue work on polygons and angles!! Lots and lots of hands-on activities will be happening. Check for a homelink each night to practice the skill we have learned that day! Also, ask your kids to find angles in everyday objects--you might be surprised at how their math vocabulary works this week!
Science- Magnets with Miss Argall :)
Social Studies- How people change communties--we will continue talk about immigrants and where our families came from. New vocab words we will learn this week are: ethnic group, diverse & architecture! If you have any stories to share from the generations before us, feel free to send them with your kids and we will find time to share them with the group!
Writing- We will be working on homophones. Our writing program has such an awesome way for students to check their spelling and understanding of the words "there, their, and they're" as well as "to, two, and too." We will work on ways to remember the correct spelling of other common homophones as well!
Other important reminders:
**Midterm reports went home today--please read them over with your child and celebrate their success! There is a form to sign and return to show that you have gone over it with your child! I'm very happy about the forward progress of our class--we will just keep on trucking. I'm trying a few new options to boost Math-Concepts & Applications as well as Fluency so our scores fly even higher in the Spring!
**Reading bags--these haven't gone home since Christmas. Mrs. Murray started having the students in literature circles--reading a chapter of a book together with your group each day. Some days are with the teacher, some are without. This seemed to be going really well that I've continued it--just adding another piece--WRITING. Each day, the students are expected to write about the chapter that they have read. Their writing should be precise enough that if a friend was absent that day, they could read it and know what was going on in the story while they were gone!
**Read Aloud--the kids are LOVING the GOOSEBUMPS series. This was one of my favorites as a kid, so I grabbed one for read aloud this week to see what the kids thought---THEY LOVE IT! Many are saying that they want to check them out from the library---and they moan and groan when I close the book at the end of read aloud because the author leaves them hanging!
Until next time,
Mrs. Steinbrink
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