Our learning has really taken off this week!  I am almost finished with my testing and your child has worked so hard working independently and writing great responses in their reading journals.  Ask your child what they learned about text-to-self connections!  You can even ask them about text-to-text connections!

Our math groups are underway! This week we worked on ways to write a number.  Ask your child what was their favorite math game was this week! 

Reading Workshop- We will focus on character traits this week.  We will focus on describing the characters by how they act, feel and what they say through our text.   

Writing Workshop-  We are still working on our first piece of writing!  We are revising our words to see how we can make our writing "even better!"  I found some fancy gel pens they can use to revise and I am amazed how they are rereading their writing and making meaningful changes.  They are also staying on topic while they revise which is hard at this time of year!  

Science/ Social Studies-  This week we will focus on properties of matter.  We have some demonstrations this week involving pennies, quarters, water,  and even gummy bears!  

Math-   We will begin to wrap up our  unit on place value using two digit numbers.    On Tuesday, we will will take our place value assessment. Your child will not to study for this.  It just covers the skills and concepts we have learned in class.  If you want to review the ways to write a number, use these examples with different numbers at home: 

Standard form: 36

Word Form: thirty-six

Expanded Form:  30+6 =36

Base ten blocks :  III  xxxxxx

Class Celebrations:    Stella lost a tooth this week and we were able to add her  name to our tooth graph! Harper celebrated his birthday this week!  We hope he had a very Happy Birthday!  Stella is our Star of the Week!   We can't wait to share her poster on Monday!  

Have a super weekend!

Mrs. King