Weekly News October 26-30, 2015

Halloween Celebration:  Our room parent, Rebecca Edwards has been a big help organizing a celebration for the boys and girls. Thanks to those who are contributing and helping with our party.

   Reminders: Please pack a special snack for your child to enjoy at our celebration. Students are not wearing costumes for this party.

Homework: The math packet and reading log are due on Friday. Please return it in your Yellow Reading Log/Math Homework Folder. Please make sure you sign your child’s reading log.

Language Arts: The boys and girls have been doing a great job researching their nocturnal animals. This week we will learn how to take our research notes put it in our informative pillar and then write a paragraph. We will be reading Odd Velvet and discussing the story elements. This book will also be discussed at our all school meeting on Friday.

Mathematics: Subtraction with regrouping continues this week. Last week we talked about how to subtract across zeros. We will continue to practice. We will be doing some problem solving work this week too.

Subtraction with regrouping takes a lot of practice as there are a lot of steps to remember. I encourage you to practice at home. Next week we will be taking our test on this skill.

Science: We will be discussing what we learned from our trip to Drumlin Farm. We will continue to explore nocturnal animal’s adaptations.

Video of the Week

All About Owls - Video

Weekly News October 19-23, 2015

Homework: The math packet and reading log are due on Friday. Please return it in your Yellow Reading Log/Math Homework Folder.

Language Arts: Raz Kids login and passwords will be sent home today. Raz Kids provides a great place for your child to practice reading just right books, answering comprehension questions, and listening to stories. It is important for your child to read books at their independent level. Raz-Kids uses a different leveling system than what is sent home on your child’s report card. You can see the correlation on their website. This week the boys and girls are doing their nocturnal animal research. We will continue to work on our informative writing. We will work with ff-ll-ss words in our word work this week. Our vocabulary words will be habitat and camouflage.

Mathematics: We will continue our work on subtraction with regrouping. We will learn about regrouping the hundreds and tens. I encourage you to practice this with your child at home.

Science: The boys and girls will begin researching a nocturnal animal. We will be reading and taking notes using key words. Ask your child what animal he or she is becoming an expert on. You can bring print outs from websites or books on the animal to help with the research. We will continue to work on our vocabulary words nocturnal, adaptation, echolocation, camouflage, prey, predator, diet and habitat. We will be preparing for our field trip to Drumlin Farm on Monday.

Video of the Week

Adaptation Song

Weekly News October 13-16, 2015

Homework: The math packet and reading log are due on Friday. Please return it in your Yellow Reading Log/Math Homework Folder.

Language Arts: We will learn how to use Raz Kids at school this week. We will be reading about bats as we begin our study of nocturnal animals. The students will learn how to use key words to complete our informative pillar. Then we will talk about how to turn the key words into sentences to make an informative paragraph.

Mathematics: This week we will be learning about subtraction up to 1,000. Please see the School to Home Connection sheet about chapter 3 in your Spring Street Folder. We will begin by doing subtraction without regrouping. We will use base ten blocks to model it. Then we will use the blocks to show how to regroup the tens and ones to subtract.

Online Math Tools: Get online math support that follows what we do in class. Go to your parent portal on the district’s homepage to get your child’s username and password. Then click on the Think Central link that is by the password. This will take you to the online resource from our Math In Focus book. At this site you can get online manipulatives such as base ten blocks. You can also see the student text book (not workbook). This book has practice problems and activities. I encourage you to have your child use the online manipulatives to help with homework. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Science: We will begin our study of nocturnal animals beginning with the bat. We will be reading/researching and taking notes. We will use the note to write informative paragraphs. Some key vocabulary words include: nocturnal, adaptation, echolocation, camouflage, prey, predator, diet and habitat.

Social Studies: We will read our Scholastic News titled Why Do We Explore.

Video of the Week

Animal Camouflage

October 5-8, 2015

Homework: The math packet and reading log are due on Thursday. Please return it in your Yellow Reading Log/Math Homework Folder.

Language Arts: We will read the book our Scholastic News Magazines. One is on Johnny Appleseed and the other is on marmoset Monkeys. The class will practice how to Read to Someone. We will discuss nonfiction text features. We continue to read about life cycle of a frog. The children will work on opinion writing. We will learn about compound words and two syllable words.

Mathematics: We will be adding three digit numbers with regrouping in the ones and tens. We will have a problem solving day and focus on the steps to take when solving a word problem. We will be reviewing chapter 2 on addition with regrouping. We will be taking our test on it on Thursday.

Science: We will continue to read and study the life cycle of a frog. Your child will be expected to know the four stages and at least two important facts that help explain that stage. You are encouraged to talk about it together. I am hoping we will be ready to have a quiz on it on Thursday.

Social Studies: We will talk about Columbus Day. We will use our map skills to find where Columbus went on his voyage.

Thank you to all the parents that were able to attend curriculum night. Please let me know if you have any questions. I am looking forward to working with you.

We will not have a reflection this week. Enjoy the long weekend!

Video of the Week

Life Cycle of a Frog