Weekly News-Week 33

Check out what's going on in Room 103!

 

Reading Workshop: Non-Fiction study-find new information

 

Language Arts: Choosing Non-fiction books

 

Writing: Writing chapters to make a chapter book (including how-to and diagram pages)

 

Phonics/Spelling: 2 sounds of ie

 

Social Studies: Everything ROCKS!

 

Math: Measurement-Capacity with non-standard units

Weekly News-Week 32

Check out what's going on in Room 103!

 

Reading Workshop: Non-Fiction study-what do we already know and how can we confirm or change our thoughts?

 

Language Arts: Choosing Non-fiction books

 

Writing: Choosing and brainstorming a Non-fiction topic to write about

 

Phonics/Spelling: 2 sounds of y (y=long i; y=long e)

 

Social Studies: Natural resources and how we use them

 

Math: Measurement-Area with non-standard units

Weekly News-Week 31

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Reading Workshop: Begin a Non-fiction Study

 

Language Arts: Build a sentence

 

Writing: Poetry writing-narrowing our topic

 

Phonics/Spelling: ou; -est; adding suffixes -er and -est

 

Social Studies: Goods and Services

 

Math: Measurement-Length (measuring with non-standard units)

Weekly News-Week 30

Check out what's going on in Room 103!

 

Reading Workshop: Celebrate our improved fluency!

 

Language Arts: Thesaurus skills; Compare and Contrast

 

Writing: Poetry writing-writing the music of poetry; narrow down our topic

 

Phonics/Spelling: al/all=all; adding the suffix -ed

 

Social Studies: Needs vs. Wants

 

Math: Time-analog and digital (to the hour and half hour)

 

Time is the perfect topic to work on at home! Have your child recognize times for different scheduled activities on an analog and digit clock. They can help you tell what time they have sports practice, what time the family eats dinner, what time their favorite TV show comes on and what time to go to bed! Please work on this to reinforce the everyday use of telling time.