Reading
This week in reading we continued to focus on making inferences. The kiddos know that an inference is made by using schema (from your brain) and evidence (from the text). There are motions that we use - so ask your kiddo about them.
Word Study
We focused on irregular past tense words this week. Your child's word study test looks a little different this week. The students had to change the present tense word in a sentence that was given to them & then write a sentence using the past tense.
Math
We are still working our way through our subtraction unit. All students should be able to solve 3-digit subtraction problems with two regroups and even across 0! We have been working really hard on this skill. This week we also worked a lot with word problems that had extra information and 2-steps. Please reinforce with your child when solving word problems the importance of slowing down to understand what the question is asking (some kiddos are subtracting when they should add or using all the numbers instead of only the 2 needed, etc.).
Writing
We continued to work on opinion writing this week. We started our first big opinion paper. This paper is about what our favorite place to live is. Each student chose a place that s/he thinks is the best place to live (small town, suburb, rural area, desert, polar region, rain forest, ocean coast, an island, the mountains or the plains). We researched these areas on PebbleGo last week. Then we wrote our lead first supporting reason paragraph.
Health
We "officially" started our health unit this week. The kiddos researched about the respiratory system on PebbleGo and reading books We talked about the importance of keeping our lungs healthy by exercising and not smoking. We watched a video of what a healthy lung looks like with air going in and then a smoker's lung. Today, the kiddos made a model of the respiratory system - this model is coming home so make sure to ask your child about it. The straw represents the trachea, the balloon represents the lungs, the cup represents the rib cage, and the balloon on the bottom represent the diaphragm.
Next Week is Read Week!!
We are looking forward to wonderful Read Week! Due to all the guests that we have coming in to read, we will not be having homework next week or new word study words. I hope that you have thought of ideas for all of our Read Week dress up days - I can't wait to see all the kiddos next week!! :)
Dress Up Days
Monday: wear mismatched clothes
Tuesday: Hat Day
Wednesday: Book Character Day
Thursday: Green Day (wear as much green as possible)
Friday: PJ/Flannel Day
Our Door Decorations!
Also, as a reminder, we have our Munch & Read on Tuesday 11:00-11:45. I have heard from many families & it looks like we are going to have a GREAT turn out! If you haven't signed up, but are able to come - please come!! Tuesday is also early release (12:10) - so students will not be having lunch recess that day, I know that the blue sheet that came home said part would be recess - sorry for the confusion!!
Have a wonderful weekend & it looks like the weather will be beautiful again! :)
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