Hello! It sure is a dreary Monday but we are finally here for a full week!
Upcoming Events:
January 18: ½ day for students
January 21: No school for students
January 22-25: Celebrate NDLC Week (watch for dress up days)
January 22: Family Night
January 24: Family Night
Reading: In our reading unit we are focusing on taking charge of our own reading. We will teach that readers make plans to be the best that they can be by asking, “What do I do a lot? What can I do even more? We will teach students that they can ask their partners for help when the work gets tough. We will also work on thinking about what is happening in the story to help solve difficult words.
Writing: We are beginning our new unit of Opinion writing. Thank you for sending in collections and if you haven’t please do by tomorrow. We will be judging our collections and writing in convincing ways to show our opinions about which is best and why.
Math: In math this week we will be comparing two digit numbers. We will distinguish between adding ones and adding tens to other numbers and practice adding to ones and tens to decade numbers. We will also continue to work on the counting on strategy and the make a ten strategy.
Science: This week we begin our unit about the properties of light and sound. Your child will learn that not only are the characters in an animated movie created by artists, but so are all the sounds! There’s such a thing as “sound effect artists.” These artists make use of many different objects in order to make sounds such as rain, wind, thunder, robot voices, and more. Often they do this by creating vibrations, a back-and-forth movement. (There’s a scientific idea we’re laying the groundwork for: that vibrations and sounds are fundamentally connected.)
You can continue to foster your child’s curiosity by sitting down together and watching this short video about some of the famous sound effects artists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSf8Er2gV_Q
Have a great week!
-Samantha
Upcoming Events:
January 18: ½ day for students
January 21: No school for students
January 22-25: Celebrate NDLC Week (watch for dress up days)
January 22: Family Night
January 24: Family Night
Reading: In our reading unit we are focusing on taking charge of our own reading. We will teach that readers make plans to be the best that they can be by asking, “What do I do a lot? What can I do even more? We will teach students that they can ask their partners for help when the work gets tough. We will also work on thinking about what is happening in the story to help solve difficult words.
Writing: We are beginning our new unit of Opinion writing. Thank you for sending in collections and if you haven’t please do by tomorrow. We will be judging our collections and writing in convincing ways to show our opinions about which is best and why.
Math: In math this week we will be comparing two digit numbers. We will distinguish between adding ones and adding tens to other numbers and practice adding to ones and tens to decade numbers. We will also continue to work on the counting on strategy and the make a ten strategy.
Science: This week we begin our unit about the properties of light and sound. Your child will learn that not only are the characters in an animated movie created by artists, but so are all the sounds! There’s such a thing as “sound effect artists.” These artists make use of many different objects in order to make sounds such as rain, wind, thunder, robot voices, and more. Often they do this by creating vibrations, a back-and-forth movement. (There’s a scientific idea we’re laying the groundwork for: that vibrations and sounds are fundamentally connected.)
You can continue to foster your child’s curiosity by sitting down together and watching this short video about some of the famous sound effects artists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSf8Er2gV_Q
Have a great week!
-Samantha
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