IMPORTANT REMINDER
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders every Wednesday morning. Please make sure you check your child’s Daily Folder each night and initial the day to show me you saw the information.
Wednesday: No Library this week.
Friday: Math and Reading Homework due.
HOMEWORK
This week’s reading homework is to login and get familiar with RAZ KIDS. This is a site to use any time, but it will sometimes be assigned as the reading homework. Please read at least 1 book and complete the quiz after the reading. I am excited to check my class reports and see all the reading happening. Raz Kids is a great leveled reading site. Please go to https://www.raz-kids.com/ --- go to kids login, green box--- enter teacher username, tbyrne9--- go to your child's name---then enter student password, your child's birthday in number form, for example 01012008. Look for math problem solving in the Tuesday folder.
This week:
READING
We will continue learning about non-fiction/expository texts. Since we are getting closer to Thanksgiving, we will focus on Thanksgiving books for the next two weeks. Strong readers activate their prior knowledge or think about what they already know when they read a non-fiction. They also ask questions, think about author's purpose and identify important facts. In addition to all these, strong readers confirm things that they thought they knew and clear any misconceptions. We will practice doing all these things as we learn about this important tradition: Thanksgiving.
WRITING
As we learn about the story of Thanksgiving, we will record information in our own words so that we may teach others about history and this important tradition. We will go back to the time of the Pilgrims. We will learn who they were and where they came from. We will write about the Mayflower ship, the Plymouth Rock, and the Native Americans. As we write, we will make sure we go over writing conventions: Starting with capital letters, forming the letters correctly, leave one finger space between the words, write sentences with correct grammar and structure and put punctuation (periods, exclamation points or question marks) at the end of our sentences.
MATH
This week we will start thinking about subtraction. Subtraction names a missing part by taking away, removing or comparing to find a difference. We will use concrete and pictorial models including ten-frames, math racks, Base Ten blocks and other manipulatives to represent word problem situations involving separating or comparing sets of whole numbers up to 20 where the unknown may be the start, change or result of separating problems.