Monday: Reading bags and homework activity pages go home. This week we are looking for elements of nonfiction in books. The book may not be a “just right book” due to the need to send a nonfiction text. A little support reading may be necessary. Each student book will have different elements of nonfiction. Does the book have a table of contents? Captions or labels? Bold or highlighted words? Not all elements will be found in each book.
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders every Wednesday morning. Report cards for the first 9 weeks will come home Tuesday. Please keep the report card printout for your reference but sign and return the envelope on Wednesday. Math homework will be sent home in the Tuesday folder.
Please make sure you check your child’s Daily Folder each night and initial the day to show me you saw the information.
Wednesday: Library Day. Please return all books by 8:00 am.
Friday: Reading and Math homework due.
This week:
READING
We will continue our study of expository/non-fiction text. As a class we discussed the features of nonfiction such as real photos, table of contents, glossary, caption, labels, index, diagram, and maps. We concluded that the purpose of reading nonfiction text is to learn! We also learned the differences between fiction and nonfiction. This week we will learn about the main idea in a book Vs. the most important information in the book. When we read a non-fiction, the cover book, the title and the pictures in the book will help us to understand the main idea in the book. The important facts and information are related to the questions that we might have before or during reading the book.
WRITING
We will continue writing non-fiction. We are learning how to draw careful diagrams like scientist and label the parts. Our goal is to write important facts that we learn after reading non-fiction texts and write them in our own words. We are writing facts so we can teach others about what we have learned.
MATH
So far, we have been working on place value. The children have learned that the place of a digit in a number matters and depending on its place a digit can represent tens, or ones. This week we will continue learning about building numbers to 99 using ten sticks (base ten blocks) and ones. We will also compare numbers, or finding 10 less, or ten more than a number using number line or hundred chart and review the vocabulary, greater than, less than or equal to. We will apply our knowledge of number line and number comparison to solve everyday math problem.
SCIENCE
This week in science we will learn about different forms of energy such as light, heat and sound. We will discuss the importance of energy in everyday life and how scientists use energy to invent objects that improve our daily lives.