I hope you all are staying warm and healthy during these winter months. I finally have all my friends back in the classroom, and I’m so excited! I plan to send a progress report home on Friday, as trimester two ends on February 25.
Map testing starts this week. We take one this week and two next week. Although there is snow on the ground, we still go out for recess. We are permitted outside if the weather is 20 degrees or above. For the most part, my friends tend to have their things. Please remind them to bring those every day. If they do not need their snow gear at home, they can leave it in their lockers. The memory verse due February 8 is Genesis 8:22 → “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer, and winter, day and night shall not cease. “ Reading: This week in reading, we are continuing our work with main idea and details. Challenge them at home to identify the main idea in the different stories they are reading :) We will also work with root words, suffixes, and prefixes. We will close out our current math and science units on Thursday and Friday. Their math test will be Thursday. Their science test will be Friday.
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I hope you guys are staying healthy and warm during these colder days that we are having!
Map testing begins on Jan 31. We will take one test next week and two the following week. Grace is hosting an open house on Sunday from 1-2:30 pm, so if you know of any parents looking to change schools, encourage them to stop by. Math: We started our unit on multiplying multiples of 10. We learned four different ways or tricks to solve equations. Our favorite one is the "invisible 0" trick. We will spend about a week covering the material. Depending on how things go, our test will be next Wednesday or Thursday Reading: We are back in our daily 4 rotations. I meet with each group and work on the different skills for the week. When I work with them, we focus on the genre and comprehension skills. This week those skills are expository text, main idea & details, and summarization. All of our stories this week will be about Earth and its neighbors. Science: We are wrapping up our second science chapter. We will begin the review process on Friday. They have really enjoyed this unit as we've used balloons to create static electricity and turned paperclips into magnets. Their science test is set for Tuesday, but I will push it back if we need to review more. We are slowly getting back into the swing of things. January is flying by fast! Their Tuesday folders will come home on Thursday as I am out on Tuesday and Wednesday.
On Thursday & Friday, they will bring home information about their Black History Month Project. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. The memory verse due January 25 is Genesis 1:28 → God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and be its master. Rule over the fish in the sea, and over the birds in the sky. Rule over every living thing that moves on the earth.’ (International Children’s Bible version ICB) Math: We are wrapping up our division chapter. We will take our test on Friday. Our next chapter will focus on multiplying multiples of 10. The chapter isn’t long, about three chapters, so we will spend roughly about a week on it. After that, we will begin to look at patterns and multiplication tables. Reading: We started a new read-aloud, How to Eat Fried Worms. They really seem to enjoy hearing about someone eating worms with different toppings. This week in reading, we’re covering future-tense verbs and idioms. We’re reviewing historical fiction, prefixes, and cause & effect. Since we are reading historical fiction stories, we will read about interactions with famous people such as Jackie Robinson and Abraham Lincoln. Important Dates:
Welcome back! I hope you all had a wonderful winter break! We are taking time this week to relearn some routines, such as what we do in the morning, turning things in, how our papers should look, and some daily 4 things.
Just a few reminders, the homework will go up every Monday night or early Tuesday morning on the class Weebly. They will bring home their memory verse slips in their Tuesday folders, and if they happen to lose it, you can find the verse on the class Weebly as well. The memory verse due January 18 is Genesis 1:27 → So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. (NRSV) Religion: We are starting a new unit that focuses on the beginning and the fall into sin. As we navigate through those stories, we will learn about the days of creation, the first sin between Adam and Eve, and how God felt about their choice. We will also learn about Cain and Abel and how Cain’s actions lead us to Noah and his Ark. The last lesson in the unit that we will cover talks about the tower of Bable. Math: We picked back up where we left off in topic 4. We reviewed fact families, and how we can use multiplication to help us divide. I taught them to ask “what times this number will give me that number?” A quick example is, what times 8 will give me 16? The answer is 2, so 16 divided by 8 equals 2. We will continue to work on connecting multiplication and division. Please continue to have them practice their math facts at home. If need be, have them create fact families at home, as that will help them remember their facts. Our math test is set for next Friday, January 21. Reading: We are taking a break from our daily 4 rotations, as we are missing a few friends this week. However, we are reviewing what they should do during the rotations without actually rotating. This week in reading, we are covering past-tense verbs and contractions. We are reviewing folktales and synonyms. Since folktales use animals to help teach the lessons, we talked about the differences of different animals and how those differences make them unique. Science: We are starting our electricity and magnetism chapter this week. We did a gallery walk that involved them answering some questions about topics we will cover in this chapter. They will watch some Generation Genius videos, some Bill Nye youtube episodes, and an episode of Magic School Bus. The plan is also for them to do some hands-on projects with magnets and static electricity using balloons. Important dates:
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