Dear Family,
Ask me about...
Miscellaneous
Reading
Writing
Phonics
Math
Science
Sincerely,
Your child
P.S. Photos with our learning buddies will be shared this weekend!
Ask me about...
Miscellaneous
- the ball roll greeting, the frog hop greeting, and the high 10 greeting
- sharing our weekend news every Monday morning
- playing Coseeki (a follow the leader game)
- our poems of the week: Light the Candles Bright and December by Maurice Sendak
- trying out our new classroom furniture
- reading on the iPads with Raz-Kids
- learning the science behind snowflakes
- creating paper snowflakes with our 3rd grade learning buddies
Reading
- how to find a just right Book on the Go
- getting a mystery letter from the SSDA: Super Secret Detective Agency
- becoming official word detectives and earning our badges
- learning strategies to solve new words: look closely, do a slow check, use everything you know
- practicing what it means to be a good reading partner
- discovering new snap words (words we know right away, in a snap)
- being word collectors; collecting new words we solved in our books
- going on word hunts for trick words and playing I Spy with our trick words
- discovering new words that remind us of words we already know
Writing
- bringing our writing to life by telling stories in itsy bitsy steps
- adding dialogue to our stories using quotation marks and the word “said”
- bringing the people in our stories to life by making them feel and think
- acting out our stories to find ways to add more detail to our writing
- rereading and sharing our writing with our partners
Phonics
- the glued sounds /am/ and /an/
- new trick words: from, have, do, does, are, were
- reading and spelling words that have a base word and the suffix ‘s’
- the two sounds that the letter ‘s’ can make
- remembering to only tap out the base word and not the suffix
- the two ways the suffix ‘s’ can change a base word: make it plural or make it an action word
Math
- solving equations and story problems with unknown partners and unknown totals
- solving mixed story problems (addition and subtraction)
- counting on to find the unknown partner
- discussing the different types of subtraction story problems: take away and take apart
- relating addition and subtraction
- taking the test on Unit 3: Unknown Numbers in Addition and Subtraction
Science
- what causes sound (vibration)
- what vibration is (movement)
- how sound travels (in waves)
- listening to and feeling the vibrations of a tuning fork
- how to make salt move without touching it or blowing on it
- learning that sound waves are weaker when further away
- exploring with volume (soft/loud) and pitch (high, medium, low)
- designing and creating our own musical instruments that can change sound
- recording our plan and the results in our science notebooks
Sincerely,
Your child
P.S. Photos with our learning buddies will be shared this weekend!