Hello Families! What a whirl wind this week was! I am so pleased with the hard work that happens daily in our classroom. This is such an exciting time of year but the students are truly working so hard in school and trying their very best! It would be very much appreciated if supplies for gingerbread houses were turned in by Friday the 18th. This way, I can organize them and get them ready for the celebration- but I can also see what we may be missing and get it in time for our event. We will also be having our pajama day and "2D Has Talent" show on Friday the 18th. Please let me know if you have any questions!
Reading
We have been working so hard to get to know the characters in our stories. We have talked about personality traits, physical traits and looked closely at how our characters solve problems. Everyone has done such a great job recording their thinking and finding places in their stories where the character shows emotion, a memorable action, sayings or thoughts.
Math
We have been working on place value! Place value is so important with what is coming up in math. Students will be adding and subtracting with regrouping and understanding place value is crucial. We have been practicing looking at various numbers in the hundreds and thousands- and within them figuring out what each number is worth and what their place value is. The students have been working on writing numbers in word form and expanded form. We have also used base ten blocks to help visualize these numbers and become familiar with the difference between ones, tens, hundreds and thousands. Math vocabulary will be sent home to study this week in place of weekly sight words!
Writing and Science
The students have loved our states of matter and lab report unit. We have been working hard to understand the elements of a lab report and conducting experiments. So far we have tested if a lego would sink or float. The students were looking so closely at the air pockets and made many great predictions. We then tested if an eraser would sink or float. Our latest experiment was all about the question- "Can solids change their shape?" The students found out that with applied force such as heat and pressure, it certainly can! We are now practicing the skill of concluding our lab reports and recording what we have found out and why it has happened.
"Now Watch Me Sort..."
Word sorts continue to become more challenging and the students are working so hard each week on the different activities we do with our sorts. Since the sorts are more complex, we will work with the same words this week. Additional words will be added to the classroom sorts for an extra challenge. Please have students study last week's words at home and practice writing them with their specific rule. When students can apply the rule to their writing, they are truly showing mastery of the rule. This is something we are working on during writing!
Reading
We have been working so hard to get to know the characters in our stories. We have talked about personality traits, physical traits and looked closely at how our characters solve problems. Everyone has done such a great job recording their thinking and finding places in their stories where the character shows emotion, a memorable action, sayings or thoughts.
Math
We have been working on place value! Place value is so important with what is coming up in math. Students will be adding and subtracting with regrouping and understanding place value is crucial. We have been practicing looking at various numbers in the hundreds and thousands- and within them figuring out what each number is worth and what their place value is. The students have been working on writing numbers in word form and expanded form. We have also used base ten blocks to help visualize these numbers and become familiar with the difference between ones, tens, hundreds and thousands. Math vocabulary will be sent home to study this week in place of weekly sight words!
Writing and Science
The students have loved our states of matter and lab report unit. We have been working hard to understand the elements of a lab report and conducting experiments. So far we have tested if a lego would sink or float. The students were looking so closely at the air pockets and made many great predictions. We then tested if an eraser would sink or float. Our latest experiment was all about the question- "Can solids change their shape?" The students found out that with applied force such as heat and pressure, it certainly can! We are now practicing the skill of concluding our lab reports and recording what we have found out and why it has happened.
"Now Watch Me Sort..."
Word sorts continue to become more challenging and the students are working so hard each week on the different activities we do with our sorts. Since the sorts are more complex, we will work with the same words this week. Additional words will be added to the classroom sorts for an extra challenge. Please have students study last week's words at home and practice writing them with their specific rule. When students can apply the rule to their writing, they are truly showing mastery of the rule. This is something we are working on during writing!
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