FYI

*     Please continue having your child read the WEB bag books and return them at least  2X week.

  *   Work on Extra math website to help learning math facts.

*      Library is on Tuesday.  Please help your child remember their books.

*     Thanksgiving break 11/21- 11/26.  Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

*.    The next early release day will be 12/14.

*     The annual Christmas music program will be Tuesday, 12/4.

*    Please keep food and winter clothing donations coming in for the food drive!   Thank you to  all who have already donated.   Also make sure your child is dressed properly for the winter weather!

 

Reading  

This week in reading we reviewed how important it is to retell stories.  We worked on retelling with the shape map, five finger retell, and read-stop-retell strategies.  When retelling stories we focus on telling with details the characters, setting, problem, events in the middle, solution, and authors message.  Next week we will begin unit 3 in readers workshop which focuses on characters.

  

Math  

Our focus for math has been solving for unknown partners or totals in story problems and equations. We are learning that there are different strategies we can use to solve for an unknown partner and that it is important to always show our work. We can show our work with an equation, math mountain, or a proof drawing.

Writing   

Our goal for this unit is to Write for Readers. We are making our stories easy for others to read and making them more interesting.  We have learned to use 5 Star sentences,  a caret to add missing words,  and to add details suing dialog or our five senses. After Thanksgiving we will begin a unit on persuasive writing.