HI!

What a great week of learning!   We have earned 7 compliments as a class so to  celebrate when we reached 5, we had 5 minutes of free time! Please keep encouraging this great behavior!  We need 3 more to celebrate with a bigger reward!

October 10 is set aside for parent/ teacher conferences. I will send out a Sign Up Genius soon!  I look forward to meeting with you and discussing all the great things your child is learning!

Here is our week of learning at a glance:

Reading Workshop-This week we will look at nonfiction texts. We will look at features found in nonfiction texts to help us understand new information. 

Writing Workshop-   We will continue to work on how we use writing partners to help us become better writers.  We will also focus on staying on topic. 

Science/ Social Studies-     This week in science we will look at how matter changes when we apply heat or cold.  We will have a couple of demonstrations / experiments this week! 

Math-   We will continue our unit on addition.  We will begin to look at two digit addition this week.   We will focus on strategies that would help us such as using our tens and ones, a hundreds chart, a number line, and even using facts we know to help us solve our math problem. 

Important News:   We started our STAR STUDENT this week!  Every week we will highlight a different student. They will decorate a poster and share with the class on Monday.

This week in STEAM, we learned how we can physically change matter by making paper airplanes!  We took our airplanes outside and we tested to see which airplane "flew" the farthest while carrying "cargo" ( 2 quarters).  Ask your child how their plane flew AND what they would do differently next time. 

Class Celebrations:   We want to wish Natalie and Khloe a very Happy Birthday! We hope your day is special!  

Have a great week!

Hi!   What a great week of learning we had this week!  We have worked hard and our day flies by!  This week in STEAM we made boats that had to float after I put 10 pennies in the boat!   If you haven't checked SeeSaw, you may want to see the fabulous boat your child made today!  Ask them why their group chose the materials they used. 

Here is what we are learning next week:

Reading Workshop-This week we will look at questioning.  We will learn that readers ask questions before reading, while reading, and even after they read!  All of our reading jobs this week will involve questioning strategies. 

Writing Workshop-   We will continue to focus on responding to our reading in our Reader's notebooks and we will begin writing with our  writing partners.  

Science/ Social Studies-      Please have your child bring in a small object from home! This object could be  a special shell, rock,  coin, or trophy. Have fun with it!  We will describe our object using physical properties on Monday!

Math-   We will begin our first unit on addition.  We will begin to look at two digit addition this week. We will focus on different strategies we can use to help us solve problems such as number lines, hundreds chart, part/part/ whole, and counting on.  

Important News:   If you have extra earbuds or earphones for your child to use at school, please send them in.  We only have 8 headsets in our class and we have many apps that involve sound. We will keep the earphones in a bag labeled with your child's name.  

Thanks for sending in STEAM supplies.  Please keep the supplies coming since we will do a STEAM every Friday. 

Class Celebrations:    We are one compliment away from another reward! Please continue to encourage great behavior at home. 

Mrs.King

HI!

What a short but busy week of learning we had!  We have  earned 21 compliments so we celebrated with extra recess AND stuffed animal day! Please keep encouraging this great behavior at home. As we are becoming more comfortable with our class "family" I have noticed  more talking between transitions and in the hallway. If your child loses DOJO points for talking, please just reinforce how other classes and friends are still working and need their quiet thinking time.  Other than that, our classroom routines are running smoothly and we even were able to get through all 4 of our math rotations last week!  WOW! 

Here is our week of learning at a glance:

Reading Workshop-This week we will begin looking at character traits using books from Kevin Henkes.  We will learn that character traits describe a character on the inside ( shy, outgoing, nervous, sad) and not their physical description.   We will use what we learned and respond using our Reading Response Notebook.

Writing Workshop-   We will continue to focus on Writer's Workshop expectations and we will begin writing our first story.  Last week we focused on our reader's response so this took up some of our writing time.  

Science/ Social Studies-   This week we will use our iPads to tour a science lab and we will begin working on physical properties of an object.   Please have your child bring in a small object from home! This object could be  a special shell, rock,  coin, or trophy. Have fun with it!  We will describe our object using physical properties.

In social studies, we will begin to look at the importance of our Constitution in honor of Constitution Day on Sunday.  

Math-   We will begin to look at numbers on a hundreds chart and a number line.  We spent all last week working on 4 ways to write a number.  If you have a few minutes,  ask your child to show you how to write numbers ( up to 99) in these four ways.

Standard form:  45

Expanded form: 40+5=45

Word form:  forty-five

Base 10 blocks:  IIII . . . . .  

I will teach the game Guess my Number in math.  This will also be on the homework this week!  Given any number from 10-100, one player picks a number (for example, 35). They write it down on a piece of paper and then they hid it.  Player 2 asks questions which can only be answered with yes or no.   For example:

1. Is your number even?

2.  Does your number have 4 tens?

3.  Is your number less than 50?

4.  Is your number greater than 30?

The player that guesses crosses out numbers on a hundreds chart after asking the questions to narrow down the numbers.  Continue playing until player 2 guesses the correct number.  Then switch roles. 

Important News:    If you have an extra set of earbuds around your house, please send them in with your child for our iPads. I will keep them in  ziplock bag with your child's name on it so they will not get worn by anyone else. I have bought some extra ones just in case as well.  We have a few programs that read books to us or that have videos we can watch so the earbuds will come in handy.  

Class Celebrations:    AJ  lost a tooth this week and we were able to add him name to our tooth graph!  It was nice to see many of you on Grandparent's Day. That day is always special to the kids.  

I hope you have a great week!

Mrs.King