Early
dismissal on Wednesday-Students will be dismissed at 1:29 pm.
New
Homework Packet-Homework
will now be assigned in a packet on each Friday and it will be due the
following Friday. The “Monday Night Journal” is still an assignment but it does
not need to be completed on Mondays. I hope this helps the busy weekday
schedules you have. Nightly reading should still be done each night.
Writing-This week we will be learning
how to write an entertaining story beginning. By using a sound, action, or
dialogue, a story beginning hooks the reader and makes them want to read more.
Reader’s
Workshop-Making
inferences is a difficult skill in reading. To teach inferring, I use an
activity called Picture of the Day. We look at the picture and list our
observations. Next we make guesses and inferences about the picture. This
activity is always a favorite. We will begin Picture of the Day this week.
Science- We begin our study of the sun by observing it
as it moves across the sky. By recording the shapes of the shadows cast by the
sun throughout the course of a day, we can tell how high the sun is in the sky
(as seen from our location on Earth). We will discover the patterns of how the
sun appears to move in a day.
Math-We will learn how to determine
elapsed time using open number lines. We will also work with scaled bar graphs
and some learn multiplication strategies.
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