Upcoming Reminders and/or Events:
- Trail Walk is on Wednesday! We will be on the trail from 8:50-9:20am. Parents and grandparents are welcome to join us.
- FreshGrade check-ins will be sent out later this week. This is a good time to sit down with your child and have a look through their online portfolios together and see the progress over this term.
- Winter concert is coming up! We will be performing 3 songs on Thursday, December 20th at 1pm in the gym.
- I would like to explore using two websites to complement our lessons in class. One is a website called Prodigy which is a game-based site that helps students master math skills. The other one is a typing.com that teaches typing with interactive lessons, typing games, and achievements. Both sites require a login/password so that I can follow their progress and adjust their lessons as needed. I have a teacher account and will provide a login/password for your child to use---which we will write down in our agendas. The logins include their first name and last initial only. No full names or their student email have been shared. Both of these websites can be accessed at home for extra practice. Let me know if you have any questions.
Here's what we're up to in class:
- Spelling: We are focusing on the long /e/ sound this week and noticing how many different ways it can be spelled.
- Gym: Our floor hockey tournament has ended and we are having a games week!
- Math: This week we are finishing up the standard algorithm for subtraction and beginning to look at some strategies for mental math. We will be looking at making tens, friendly numbers, break apart, and number line strategies.
- Writing Studio: Recently we have been looking closely at sentences. We have been looking for run-ons and fragmented sentences, and learning how to fix them. We are also learning how to take a basic sentence and add information to write an expanded sentence. Finally we'll be starting a mini poetry unit to take us into Christmas.
- Science: This week we are using the information we learned about the importance of water to the human body and writing an opinion paragraph with a topic sentence, 3 details and explanations, and a concluding sentence.
- Art: This week we'll be learning about symmetry and creating an Christmas tree positive/negative picture.