Weekly News for September 23rd-September 27th:
Learning Goals:
Reading: This week in reading our lessons will focus on what to do during our reading buddy partnerships. For a portion of each reader's workshop students meet with a classmate for reading buddy time. We will discuss how good readers come prepared to this partnership with parts of their stories flagged, ideas about their characters, and opinions of the book.
Writing: This week students delve a bit deeper into qualities of a strong personal narrative. The main ideas we will focus on include: telling a story with a beginning, middle, and end and telling focused details that bring the story to life
Math: This week in math we will review even and odd numbers, place value into the thousands and greater than and less than. Finally, we will end the week with some preliminary exploration of area.
Social Studies: We will begin our first unit of economics this week. We will start the unit by framing our big idea: we will become producers and earn income. We will discuss the difference between producers and consumers and goods vs. services.
Announcements:
Curriculum Night Slides and Parent Teacher Conferences: If you would like to review the slides I presented they are linked here. Additionally, here is the sign up for our parent teacher conferences.
Lending Library Red Book Bags: Each Friday students will pick out a book from our classroom lending library to read at home. Please have your child return the book and bag by the following Friday.
Scholastic Books Orders: If your child would like to order books this month please order online using our class code (P93YR) or send in your child's order to class. I will submit all orders at the end of the month.
Class Wish List: I have created a short amazon wish list of odds and end items that would benefit our classroom. I will be adding to this periodically as our classroom needs develop. Please click here to see our class list.
Reading: This week in reading our lessons will focus on what to do during our reading buddy partnerships. For a portion of each reader's workshop students meet with a classmate for reading buddy time. We will discuss how good readers come prepared to this partnership with parts of their stories flagged, ideas about their characters, and opinions of the book.
Writing: This week students delve a bit deeper into qualities of a strong personal narrative. The main ideas we will focus on include: telling a story with a beginning, middle, and end and telling focused details that bring the story to life
Math: This week in math we will review even and odd numbers, place value into the thousands and greater than and less than. Finally, we will end the week with some preliminary exploration of area.
Social Studies: We will begin our first unit of economics this week. We will start the unit by framing our big idea: we will become producers and earn income. We will discuss the difference between producers and consumers and goods vs. services.
Announcements:
Curriculum Night Slides and Parent Teacher Conferences: If you would like to review the slides I presented they are linked here. Additionally, here is the sign up for our parent teacher conferences.
Lending Library Red Book Bags: Each Friday students will pick out a book from our classroom lending library to read at home. Please have your child return the book and bag by the following Friday.
Scholastic Books Orders: If your child would like to order books this month please order online using our class code (P93YR) or send in your child's order to class. I will submit all orders at the end of the month.
Class Wish List: I have created a short amazon wish list of odds and end items that would benefit our classroom. I will be adding to this periodically as our classroom needs develop. Please click here to see our class list.
