January 19-22

Writing

We will be working on our persuasive letters to the school board for our project based learning of our all abilities playground design. We will use our editing checklists to polish our pieces and give each other feedback on how to make our work even better!

Reading

In reading this week, we will be learning all about how to identify the main idea of a text. We will identify the main idea and supporting details in a variety of books throughout the week!

Math

We are beginning a new unit on money this week. We will begin by learning all the names of the coins and their values. Later in the week, we will practice counting groups of coins up to 1 dollar. Students will learn the difference between using the dollar sign and a decimal point and the cent sign.

The iXL activities are great practice for learning the coins and their values as well as counting a group of coins. You also can have your child count your change at the grocery store or if you go out to dinner!

Science and Social Studies:

We are going to start thinking like geographers this week.  Our question that will drive our learning is “How can we, as student geographers, help make our neighborhood more safe and fun for everyone in the community?”  We will kick it off with a neighborhood walk to discover all of the safety features that are present and missing from our community.  We will end the week with a fun bike rally that includes information from a police officer and hopefully a bike shop employee!  Please send in bikes, scooters, skateboards, and especially helmets on Friday.  We also need streamers, balloons, scotch tape, etc. to decorate our items for the rally. These items can stay in our classroom or on the bike rack.  We will need access to them throughout the day.

Research question of the week: Who was Miles Davis?    

Reminders:

MLK Day- January 18th