Hello,
Last week was very busy, but fun! I hope you had a nice weekend with the great weather.
Upcoming Events:
Writing
In writing we started a new unit. It is our Writing Project Unit. This unit is unique and fun. Students get to choose which genre of writing they will write under. What’s super cool is that one student might be writing a fictional book, one a nonfiction book, while others might be in opinion, comics, or others.
In this unit students will work through the writing process. From picking an idea, planning, drafting, to editing and revising. We will work through this writing process while studying other author's to see how they write in each specific genre.
Reading
In reading we are working to lift students' level of talk with one another about books. Students learn that talking with others about their thinking helps them to grow new ideas. Students are learning to write powerful post-it notes that they can bring to their talk time, with partners or clubs.
Math
This new math unit has been lots of fun for students. They enjoy learning about place value. They are learning about groups of hundreds, tens, and ones. They are learning how to add equations like: 500+85 by thinking about each place value. We have been building numbers, decomposing them, and really working to understand that 565 means 500 hundreds, 6 tens, and 5 ones.
The next part of our unit takes us into addition and subtraction problems with three digit numbers.
KAT
Our Knowledge-A-Thon was such a great success. So much fun was had Friday with a Kahoot (think Jeopardy like game) that had students answering the questions they studied. We had a special visitor from Pete the Cat. And...movie and popcorn to end the day Friday!!! Thank you to all the families for helping your student practice their questions. We also want to thank everyone for their donations. I can’t wait to see if our school meets our goal!
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