Dear Family,
Ask me about...
Miscellaneous
Reading
Phonics
Math
Sincerely,
Your child
Ask me about...
Miscellaneous
- foreign language greetings: Tamil - kaalai vanakkam and French - bonjour
- the poems of the week, The Twelve Days of Winter by Joan Wernick and When All the World is Full of Snow by N.M. Bodecker
- modeling Whole Body Listening and learning about Double Scoop Feelings with Mrs. Muldowney (SEL coach)
- practicing typing skills using Typing Club in the computer lab with Mr. Ahern
- hearing and vision screenings with Nurse Dolly
- acting out Goldilocks and the Three Bears with our 3rd grade learning buddies
Reading
- studying the elements of fairy tales
- reading and comparing several versions of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and The Three Little Pigs
- putting ourselves “in the shoes” of the characters we read
- discussing how the character thinks and feels
- acting out the books we read
- continued practice with making connections to stories and retelling with details
- writing opinion stories
- our opinions about our favorite classroom jobs
- writing job applications stating why we like that job
- learning how to edit and add on to old stories we've written
- checking our sentences for capital letters and end marks
Phonics
- taking the unit 7 phonics test on glued sounds ending in ‘nk’ and ‘ng’
- beginning unit 8 on consonant blends
- new trick words: some, come, could, would, should
Math
- counting by tens and ones
- adding 1-digit numbers to 2-digit numbers
- making a new group of ten
- using place value to compare 2-digit numbers
- the math symbols: less than and greater than
- solving mixed addition: adding tens, adding ones, or adding both
- playing the math game: 100 Ants
Sincerely,
Your child