March 25-29, 2019

Specials

Monday - Technology

Tuesday - Library

Wednesday - Music (I will be out on Wednesday, just FYI).

Thursday - PE

Friday - Art

Upcoming Events & Reminders

April 1-5 - Spring Break NO SCHOOL
April 9- Mathnasium Night 6-7:30 PM
April 17 - Cincinnati Zoo Trip!

Weekly Standards

I can read, write, and identify words with ow and ou.
I can fluently read a grade level text.
I can identify and describe the characters, settings, and events in a story.
I can explain why an event happened in a story.
I can correctly use determiners in my writing.
I can tell plus or minus 10 of a given number within 100.

Spelling Words

cow
mouth
town
mouse
how
out
cloud
crowd

Sight Words

color
early
instead
oh
nothing
thought

Week in Review

We have had so much fun learning about Fairy Tales with this unit!

We've been able to apply so many comprehension strategies - one of them being cause and effect. To help us get a better understanding of what that means, the kids were challenged to determine causes and effects for real life events in our classroom.

We've also been using these new strategies to help us design and write our own fictional narratives. We've spent a lot of time in the pre-writing phase, sharing our ideas and "reading" our pictures to our friends.

In math, we started exploring place value with double digit numbers up to 100.

On Friday, we had a spontaneous decision to learn more about the patterns of the seasons! The kids were all very curious about how we "know" when the first day of spring is each year, so we did a MysteryScience lesson on the topic.

To end our week, the kids had fun celebrating Arty Party Day!

Have a great week!

March 18-22, 2019

Specials

Monday -Music

Tuesday - PE

Wednesday - Art

Thursday - STEM

Friday - Nonrotation Day

Upcoming Events & Reminders

March 22 - Nonrotation Day for Specials
March 22 - Report cards go home
April 1-5 - Spring break (NO SCHOOL)

Weekly Standards

I can read, write, and identify words with oar, or, ore.
I can write a fictional narrative.
I can compare two texts.
I can make connections in a text.
I can correctly use comparatives.
I can count by 2s, 5s, and 10s.
I can add and subtract double digits.

Spelling Words

born
soar
core
corn
more
roar
fork
cork

Sight Words

began
better
guess
learn
right
sure

Week in Review

Here's a quick look back at our week!

The kids are so excited to begin our work on Fictional Narratives. We began by brainstorming characters who would fit certain settings.

Good authors also use other stories as mentor texts! This week, we focused on Little Red Riding Hood.

We were able to use story elements from this familiar fairy tale to help us think about our own stories...as well as create our own fractured fairy tales like this one:

Math also took a fun turn this week! We are working to master our counting patterns (2s, 5s, 10s) and making sure we understand what those patterns truly represent. 

Have a great week!

March 11-15, 2019

Specials

Monday -Art

Tuesday - STEM

Wednesday - Tech

Thursday - Library

Friday - Music

Upcoming Events & Reminders

March 13 - Spring Picture Day

March 22 - Nonrotation Day for Specials
March 22 - Report cards go home
April 1-5 - Spring break (NO SCHOOL)

Weekly Standards

I can read, write, and identify words with ir, er, ur, and or.
I can write a fictional narrative.
I can describe characters, settings and events in a story.
I can make connections in a text.
I can correctly use adjectives.
I can count by 2s, 5s, and 10s.
I can add and subtract double digits.

Spelling Words

her
work
bird
skirt
hurt
fern
dirt
fur

Sight Words

another
climb
full
great
through
poor

Week in Review

This week, our kiddos began their investigation of Fairy Tales! Over the next several weeks, we will explore different fairy tales and apply various strategies to deepen our understanding. Our first text was Goldilocks and the Three Bears! The kids practiced identifying characters, settings, and events. To take it even further, we identified character traits and explained them using text evidence.









We also had fun reading "fractured fairy tales" to make connections to the text.

In Language, we studied conjunctions. We used the ever popular School House rock video to help us remember this part of language at the beginning of the week:

We practiced matching them to sentences:

and we even made our own compound sentences with them!

We kicked off our new writing unit (fictional narratives) with some imagination in our "Writer's Theater."

In math, we focused on collecting and interpreting data. We decided to make "Monster Burgers."

We also played a few rounds of Rock, Paper, Scissors and graphed our results!

Here's to another great week!