September 30- October 4

Hi Parents,

Reading

This week we are starting our next component of Daily 5 called Listen to Reading. It is all about listening to someone else read a book and following along to reinforce fluency, expression, and comprehension. We will be using websites such as Tumblebooks, Bookflix, and Pebble Go.

We will also be diving into an author study. We will be reading 5 different books by Leo Lionni and comparing and contrasting the characters, settings, problems and solutions.

Writing

This week we continue to work on launching Writing Workshop by Lucy Calkins.  This means we will continue to model  picking a topic, types of writing, what to do when you are done writing, and how to fix our writing and publish it.  This week we will focus on making booklets and how to tell a longer story over several pages (which develops into paragraphs in older grades). I will also continue to model complete sentences in my teacher model of writing for the class. I will begin to hold them responsible for complete sentences with capital letters and punctuation. We will also begin to discuss parts of speech.  We will begin with nouns.  At home you can help your child practice by asking them to list all the nouns they can think of or all the nouns they see in a room.

Spelling

Our spelling words continue to focus on beginning blend sounds flag, grip, strap, splash. Words will go home on Monday and we will check our learning on Friday.

Math

We’re going to be rockin’ in math this week with addition facts with sums up to 20!  We have some fun songs that will help you learn your math facts!  Learning strategies for addition problem solving with challenging word problems will be a focus.  Battling addition facts with decks of cards against a partner to see who has the fastest recall will be a blast!  We will review some math vocabulary words such as sum, addend and strategy.  We’ll have a delicious lesson on fact families and discuss that flip flop facts give you twice the knowledge.  The end of the week will be double the fun as we hop with doubles and get a little exercise too!  Please continue to practice math facts at home through games on IXL, decks of cards, dominoes or flashcards.  Students should have a 6 second recall for math facts.

Science

Solid, liquid, and gas! This week students will classify matter by it’s properties. We will discuss how matter has physical properties such as shape, relative mass, relative temperature, texture, and flexibility. Throughout the week, we will be performing simple experiments to understand that heating or cooling a material may change it’s state of matter.

Reminders:

• School pictures are October 3rd. Order forms went home in last week’s Tuesday folders. Pictures must be ordered ahead of time!
• Please remember that it is unsafe and now illegal to talk or text on your cell phones while you are driving in a school zone.
• Life journals are due on Friday.
• Library day is Thursday