February 29-March 4

Writing

This week in writing, students will use a variety of mentor texts to inspire them as they create their own short poems using rhyme, rhythm, repetition, and alliteration!

Reading

This week in reading we are continuing our unit on poetry and sensory language.

Students will make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry. We will learn how rhyme, rhythm, and repetition interact to create images in poetry.  Students will be introduced to a fun variety of poetry from famous poets!

Math

We will be wrapping up boot camp and moving on to 4 digit place value. We will be going over numbers into the thousands with addition and subtraction.  We will also be reviewing skills we have covered so far this year in math.

Support our classroom learning by having your child complete these in IXL:

1. M.3 Place value models - up to thousands
2. M.6 Place value - up to thousands
3. M.11 Convert to/from a number - up to thousands
4. M.12 Convert between place values - up to thousands
5. M.14 Convert from expanded form - up to thousands

Science and Social Studies:

We will be finishing up weather and water cycle this week in science.  We will add our weather and water onto our maps of our countries and then these will be displayed in our hallway.  At the end of the week we will have a visit from Dowser Dan about the water cycle and water conservation.

Research question of the week:

Research water conservation and write 5 ways they could save water.

Reminders:

Wednesday March 2nd – Early Release Day

Monday March 14th-Friday March 17th is Spring Break.

Friday March 25th – Holiday No school

February 22-26

Writing

This week in writing, we will study and analyze poems with rhythm, rhyme, and repetition. We will use a variety of mentor texts to help us create our own short poems!

Reading

This week in reading we are beginning a new unit on poetry and sensory language. Students will make inferences and draw conclusions about how an author's sensory language creates imagery in text. Students will be introduced to the meaning of sensory language and list examples.  We will read examples of sensory language in several beautifully written stories. As we read, students will learn that sensory language allows us the opportunity to create mental images

Math

Boot Camp continues this week as we continue to learn more about multi-step problems. We will play a game where we have to solve clues to find where the enemy is hiding. Toward to end of the week, we will take an assessment to see if we have mastered multi-step problems. On Friday, soldiers will have a graduation ceremony where we celebrate all of our achievements!

Science and Social Studies:

This week we will be learning about weather.  We will be studying patterns in weather and looking at how weather changes over time.  We will pretend to be weather news forecasters and give a prediction on the weather for the coming week!  This is a fun week with lots of wild weather!

Research question of the week:

Research hurricanes or tornadoes and present facts about them!

Reminders:

Wednesday, February 24th- Engineering Day!

Thursday Feb. 25th- Talent Show (6-7 at Canyon Vista)

February 15-19

Writing

This week the class is getting a big surprise! Pop Rocks! We will describe how the pop rocks smell, taste, sound, and feel using our best sensory language. We will also use similes to describe how the pop rocks exploded. But don't tell your child, it's a surprise!

Reading

This is our last week in reading with making inferences and draw conclusions.  Students have had to become good investigators about how to understand an author's clues to help them infer what is happening in a story. We will be using our prior knowledge to make inferences with both fiction and nonfiction text.

Math

Attention! Forward march! Left, left, left right left. This week we are going through Multi-Step Problem Boot Camp! Soldiers will be put into teams and work through different missions, including basic training and an obstacle course. Soldiers will decide if a problem requires multiple operations in order to solve and then work through the steps to figure out an answer. It’s sure to be a grueling, exhausting experience but that’s the price you have to pay to be a true Word Problem Soldier!

Science and Social Studies:

This week we will be learning about the water cycle.  We will discuss all the stages that water goes through in its continuous cycle and learn the names of each phase. Condensation, evaporation and precipitation will all be discussed. At the end of the week each child will create their own water cycle comic strip to illustrate their learning.

Research question of the week: What is a geode?

Reminders:

Monday, February 15- No school for students

Wednesday, February 24th- Engineering Day!

Thursday Feb. 25th- Talent Show (6-7 at Canyon Vista)

February 8-12

Writing

This week as writers we will be reviewing the components of complete sentences, identifying different parts of a sentence, and practicing editing and rewriting fragments. We will be evaluating our own writing and writing of our peers and revising and editing to ensure our sentences are complete.

Reading

This week in reading we will continue making inferences and draw conclusions about how an author's write clues to help readers infer what is happening.   We’ll use our prior knowledge to make inferences with both fiction and nonfiction text.

Math

We are finishing up our review of time this week. Kids will continue to practice reading clocks and saying the time using our special time language. Kids will take an assessment at the end of the week to check for understanding.

Help your child at home: change your cell phone to an analog clock and have your child read the time to you. Make a schedule of your weekend. Think about the times that you do things and think of another way to say that time.

iXL: Q.1-Q.8- great activities for reading clocks and practicing time language

Science and Social Studies:

This week we will be learning about land forms in our community and other communities.  We will focus on mountains, hills, and plains.  We will also discuss the difference in salt and fresh water and where these types of water are located on Earth.  We are going to add land forms to our region map in the hallway.  

Research question of the week: Research Dr. Seuss and write down 5 facts that you learned about him.   

Reminders:

Friday Feb. 12th- Valentine Parties 1:30-2:30

Monday, February 15- No school for students

Wednesday, February 24th- Engineering Day!

Thursday Feb. 25th- Talent Show (6-7 at Canyon Vista)