We are ready for another great week! 

 

We will continue with Unit 2 and our theme of animals and how they survive.  We will be working in leveled reading groups this week to work on identifying facts and making inferences.  We will also be working on final blends for phonics/spelling and closed syllables.  Please remember, we will keep the same vocabulary words but work on dictionary skills.  We will work on using guide words to help us find words in the dictionary as well as using the dictionary to find definitions of words.

 

I will be incorporating our "Being a Writer" program into our writing.  We will be focusing on story writing and using descriptive words and details.  We will also be working hard to remember sentence conventions and complete sentences.

 

In math, we will continue working on addition with regrouping in the ones and tens.  We will also be working on story problems and remembering the steps to solve them.  We have been trying hard to remember to first read the story problem, then reread while acting out the problem or visualizing the problem.  After that, we find key words and think about what the question is asking us.  We reinstate the question with a sentence, leaving a space for the answer.  We then solve the problem and make sure our answer makes sense.  We put our answer into the sentence we made and we are done!  Depending on how the week goes, I'm planning to test over Chapter 2 on Friday, if that remains the same, the study guide will come home Wednesday.

 

We will finish our nutrition and digestive unit up this week!  Ask your child about My Plate, and how we can make better food choices.  Also, ask them about how our food is digested!  I'm sure they can give you a lot of information!

 

Important information:

***This is the last week for the salsa fundraiser!

***Family Fun Night this Friday!  Flyers went home last week!  Hope to see you there!