I hope you have had a wonderful week! We have had a lot of fun this week. Check out the Making Fossils pictures. The students had so much fun today being paleontologists.
Here is what we will be working on next week!
Reading
- We will be working on inferences for the next two weeks. Inferences are made by taking clues from the text and your schema (or background knowledge) to think about how the characters are feeling or how they may respond in a situation. This can be a difficult skill for students to grasp at first, especially when asked to provide evidence or reasons from the text to support their inference.
- We will be doing activities to make inferences to help them grasp the concept and then we will move into making inferences in stories that we are reading.
Writing
- We are continuing to work on our informational writing unit. We will continue working on our autobiographies next week. If you haven't talked with your student about a funny story from their younger years (that they probably won't remember), please do so. We will be using these stories as they start to create their auto biography.
- We are starting to focus more on grammar and word work (synonyms, antonyms, etc.) in the second half of the year. We are teaching them in mini lessons and then practicing them at centers during reading.
Math
- We will continue to work on 2-digit addition next week. The idea of regrouping was introduced this week and we will continue to practice it next week. The students have been taught the traditional algorithm for 2-digit addition, but have also been taught the break apart method. This method has the students break the number into tens and ones, then add each, then put the total together. This is easier for some students because it is more concrete and doesn't require them to regroup (even though they really are). I teach both methods so the students can choose which method works best for them.
- Please continue to practice math facts at home. It makes the 2-digit addition easier for them if they know the math facts "in a snap."
Science
- This week we learned about the respiratory system in health. The students learned about the lungs and trachea, both the location and their "job." They created a model of a lung and a diagram.
- Next week, we will be learning about the circulatory system.
- Grandma Jane, our foster grandparent, had her respiratory nurse some talk with the kids this week, if you have anyone who would like to come talk with the students about a system of the body, please let me know. They love having guest speakers. :)
- We will continue to learn about fossils and dinosaurs on Fridays. The students have taken a huge interest in the topic. We are tying the dinosaurs/fossils into our informational writing unit also.
Reading Week
- Reading Week will be March 7-11 (I know a ways off, but just giving you a heads up).
- We will have dress up days for each day. Friday, March 11, will be Book Character Day. I will send home the other days closer to Reading Week, but I always like to give a heads up on the more "elaborate" dress up days. :)
- On Friday of Reading Week (March 11), we will have Reading with the Stars on Friday of that week. Mrs. McKinzie has set up some local celebrities to read to the students.
- If you would like to come in and read to the class, please let me know, I will be sending out a Sign Up Genius closer to Reading Week.
Have a fabulous weekend! Remember, no school on Monday due to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!
Mrs. Ross
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