Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders every Wednesday morning. Look for Math homework this week. Look for parent/teacher conference sign up sheets. I look forward to meeting with you!
Wednesday: Library. Return library books by 8:00 am so that new books may be checked out. Next checkout day October 21st.
Friday: Math and Reading homework is due.
October 12- Student Holiday/Columbus Day
October 28- Early Release Day (School Dismisses at 12:45)
Homework
Look for a book in the reading homework bags today. This book is at your child’s independent reading level. Your child should be able to read this book on their own or with just a little help for names and unfamiliar vocabulary. This week we are looking at elements of fiction. Please have your child complete the character response page in the homework bag. It is a great idea to read this homework book several times. Read for accuracy (knowing all the words), fluency (reading at a great rate-not too slow, not too fast) and comprehension (understanding the story and being able to retell the story, answer questions about the story, and make connections to the story.) Remember to read each night for at least 15 minutes. Math practice work will be in the Tuesday folder. All Math homework is review.
This week:
READING
Reading is thinking as we read, we will learn how to think about the story or the information we are reading about. Readers make connections between the story and themselves. The story might remind them of something in their own life. We call this a text to self connection. Sometimes we can make connection between one story and another story. This is called a text to text connection. Sometimes we can make connections between text and the world or something that has happened in the world. We call this a text to world connection. These comprehension strategies will help us to understand the text better.
WRITING
We will continue writing stories about our lives. Last week we learned how to "zoom in" on one thing and write about a small moment in time, something in our life that happened over a few minutes. This week, we will practice stretching one small moment across several lines or several pages. We will read stories or part of stories that have those moments in them and see how famous authors stretch a small moment over few pages.
MATH
This week we will continue working on addition and count on strategies. We will use a number track and show what happens when we jump from a number one step, two steps, or zero step (count on zero). If we jump from 13, two steps further and land on 15, the matching number sentence will be 13+2=15. We will apply these strategies in problem solving. We will also look at the "turn around" and see that 13+2 is actually the same as 2+13. It might look different on the number track as far as where to start, but it lands on the same number.
SCIENCE
This week we will be continuing our discussion on physical changes to materials. We learned this past week, that adding heat and removing heat cause materials to change. We will be doing more experiments this week to observe those changes first hand!