Dear Family,
Ask me about...
Miscellaneous
Reading
Writing
Phonics
Math
Science
Sincerely,
Your child
P.S. Photos from our field trip will be posted this weekend!
P.P.S. You may wish to send in an extra change of winter clothes for your child. Many children already have an extra change of summer clothes in their locker. I will begin sending home the summer clothes next week so you may exchange them for warmer clothes. Extra socks are also helpful during the snowy season.
Ask me about...
Miscellaneous
- the “micro” wave greeting and the turkey greeting
- the poems of the week, Oh Veterans and We Are Thankful
- attending the Veterans Day assembly and meeting Mr. Bergeron from Sharon's Office of Veterans Affairs
- practicing touchpad skills (navigate, move and click, double click, drag and drop) on the laptops with Mr. Ahern using Bees and Honey on TVOKids.com
- having two special visitors: Esha’s dad and Mrs. Pelkey’s aunt to learn about Diwali and Veterans Day
- going on a field trip to see Annie the Musical at the Orpheum Theater
- practicing a desk dump to organize our desks
Reading
- reading the children’s chapter book, Annie
- creating a story map with the characters and the setting
- using our reading journals for the first time
- writing about our favorite part in Annie
- solving new words by “trying it 2 ways” (using the long and short vowel sounds)
- giving book introductions to our partners
- remembering to do something at the end of a book (reread, retell, think about a favorite part)
Writing
- unfreezing the people in our stories by making them move and talk
- using speech bubbles in our pictures
- writing action words
- being a writer and reader at the same time
- reading our stories like they are published books
- fixing and adding to our stories as we reread
Phonics
- learning about bonus letters (f, l, s, and sometimes z)
- singing the bonus letters song
- tapping to read and spell words with a bonus letter
- the glued sound /all/ as in ball
- how to tap and how to mark words with a glued sound
- the two important parts of every sentence (capital letter and an end mark)
- practicing how to scoop, or phrase, sentences to read with fluency
- practicing reading and spelling new trick words: or, for, you, your, I, they
Math
- the relation between addition and subtraction
- using math mountains to find an unknown partner
- counting on to find the unknown partner in math mountains and in equations
- finding different sets of partners for the same total
- solving story problems with unknown partners and discussing different strategies
- writing labels with our answers for story problems
- trying to "Beat the Clock" by solving addition and subtraction facts
Science
- our focus question: “How sound is created?”
- our new science word (vibrations)
- learning that sound is made when objects vibrate
- vibrations create sound by making sound waves
- discussing volume (loud/soft) and pitch (high low)
- using tuning forks to see and feel vibrations
Sincerely,
Your child
P.S. Photos from our field trip will be posted this weekend!
P.P.S. You may wish to send in an extra change of winter clothes for your child. Many children already have an extra change of summer clothes in their locker. I will begin sending home the summer clothes next week so you may exchange them for warmer clothes. Extra socks are also helpful during the snowy season.