11/30 to 12/4

Happy December!

I hope you and your family had a nice long weekend. This week I will be out Thursday and Friday with a guest teacher.

Spelling words this week:

• only
• move
• right
• because
• together

Upcoming Events:

11/30-12/12: Canned Food Drive

12/2: Culvers Gift Card Orders Due

12/5: Miss Wittmann's Wedding

12/11: No School

12/15: Pajama Day

12/15: Virtual Family Night 6-7

Math We are starting a new unit in math. This unit will have students measuring, learning about shapes (their sides, angels, and names). This is a fun unit for students. We will continue to do warm ups and reviews of money, multi-digit addition, and story problems, too! Reading In reading we continue our work in nonfiction reading. Students have spent a lot of time learning about keywords in nonfiction text. We can learn a keyword and it’s meaning from the clues the author leaves in the text features, background knowledge, and more. We will start to dig a little deeper into comprehension: thinking about how the information across the book is connected, comparing how one author versus another author writes about the same topic, and how nonfiction readers talk about their new learning. Writing As we continue our nonfiction writing we will continue to think about the audience, adding more detail for the things they want to know. We will work on goal setting and some editing and revising work too. Researchers Workshop This week in Researchers’ Workshop students will explore centers around plants. They will be thinking about what plants need to survive? They will compare plants and their needs (if they need lots of water, sun, etc). In centers students will learn and practice collecting information. Students love the weeks we go into centers because they get to lead their learning in many ways.

A few photos from last week: