We had a great week back to school! It was so nice to hear about all the fun things that you did over the winter break!
Thank you for helping create wonderful costumes and coming to cheer for our Fairy Tale parade. We had a great time discussing our favorite fairy tale characters!
REMINDERS
Monday: Reading bags come home.
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders on Wednesday morning. Report cards for second nine-weeks come home. Please sign the report card envelope and return it on Wednesday. You may keep the report card print out.
Wednesday: Library Day. All library books are due by 8:00 am.
Friday: Homework is due.
READING
In Reading we will work on expository/non-fiction books. We will review the features of expository such as headings and photographs with captions instead of illustrations (mostly) and think about the author's purpose in writing expository texts. Authors of expository texts are experts in that area and they know so much about a topic that they can teach others about that topic. Their main purpose is to inform and teach. We will learn that as readers we always need to figure out the main idea in a non-fiction book. The title and the bold headings along with reading the text and finding the important information that the author is trying to teach will all give us hints about the main idea.
WRITING
In writing, we will start writing expository texts. We will make a list of things that we are an expert at and know a lot about. We will choose from our lists to write about a topic. Our main purpose is to teach and inform others.
MATH.
In math, we will still be working on addition strategies including bridge to ten. Our main goal is for students to get familiar with and practice multiple strategies when solving math problems. While students will practice more addition facts, they will also get more fluent in problem solving. We will continue and review doubles, number line, using ten-frames, and bridge to ten.
SCIENCE
This week in science we will learn about seasons, day and night. We will learn about the characteristics of each season and how the weather changes in each season. We will discuss the relative temperature in each season and how the length of day and night is different in different seasons.