10/12-10/16

Hello,

Thank you to everyone for signing up for Seesaw! It is one platform that we will be using throughout the year. Now you will be notified when we post new videos in there. Let me know if you have any questions.

Also, we are going to start adding our spelling words of the week in the students agendas. There will be 5-10 words a week that we call snap words or trick words. They are trick words because you can't sound them out, they break rules, so we need to memorize them. We will get new words on Monday and then I will "test" them on Fridays. Each night if you want to spend a little time practicing the words, that would be great! Let me know if you have any questions.

Upcoming Events:

10/16: Book Orders Due, you can order online at https://clubs.scholastic.com/home our class code is QJMYM

10/29: No School

10/30: No School

Writing: Last week we started our Poetry Unit. We learned about seeing things through the eye of a poet (differently), using line breaks to create rhythm, and picking ideas that give us Big Feelings. The students are writing so many poems...they love it. This class is a group of natural poets. Reading: We continued our work as readers who are the boss of their reading...solving words quickly. We also worked on fluency. I refer to fluency with the class as: how our voice sounds when we read. We can sound like a reading STAR by: --sounding like the characters --using punctuation --sounding smoothly --thinking about the characters feelings and making our voice match

Math: Students are working hard at solving many different story problems. Story problems can be super tricky. It’s important that we read the problem, think what we know and what they are asking before we jump into solving them. We will be taking our first math assessment this week.

Content:

We have been immersing ourselves into learning about animals. We started by grouping animals that have similar characteristics. Then we delved deeper into those groups and noticed that even if they are the same species, animals can be quite different and have ways that they adapt to their surroundings. I included a few photos from creating our birdhouses. We had to keep in mind how different species of birds eat differently.

A few photos from last week: