In Reader's Workshop, we wrapped up our Building Strong Communities unit. We finished the unit by synthesizing our ideas from each weekly question to answer the question "What is a community?" Each student also wrote and drew about a community they belong to and explained what makes it a strong community. This coming week, we will start our new unit! Our new unit is Animals Surviving and Thriving. Next week we will be reading two nonfiction texts; A Bird Can Fly and Slither, Slide, Hop, and Run. We will use these texts to answer the weekly question "What do animals do?"
In Word Study, we have been continuing to work on identifying and reading words with the digraphs sh, ch, and th. This coming week, we will focus on words that end with these digraphs.
Last week we did not have any new weekly words.
Next week's weekly words: habitat, behavior, structure, function, travel, grassland .
In Writer's Workshop, we started our Friendly Letters unit. We have been identifying parts of a friendly letter and students started writing letters to their teachers from last year. Students have been working hard to include an opening in their letter as well as write the message/body of their letter in an organized way. Next week we will work on wrapping up our first letters and will start writing letters to our buddies.
In math, we completed our geometry unit and started our next unit How many of each? How many in all? Students are working on solidifying using counting on and counting back strategies to solve equations. They are also working on building an understanding of place value specifically with teen numbers (18=10 + 8).
In Science, students are continuing to record the weather and think about how it is changing as the seasons start to change. We will be starting our new science unit next week and will begin to explore living things and habitats.
In Studios, students completed their Book Access Projects. Next week we will begin exploring new materials and ideas in each studio. Students will be working with clay in Art Studio and Legos in Building Studio to create animals. They will also be exploring Field Guides in Science Studio.
Questions to ask your student!
- What animals did you learn about this week? What structures help them move?
- How do you count on? How do you count back?
- How is the weather changing? How do these changes impact your plans?
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