This week in literacy we will begin working on our
Daily Five routines. Students will
be doing independent sessions of Read to Self and Word Work activities. Small group reading and word work
sessions will also begin this week.
We will introduce the reading strategy of activating schema. Schema is a reader’s prior
knowledge. Activating schema helps
readers relate to the text and make connections to literature. Our text connections for the week
include My Great Aunt Arizona and Patches Lost and Found. We will also learn about compound
words.
In writing, we will be looking at complete
sentences vs. fragments. We will
begin writing out first personal narrative and work on topic development. Students are encouraged to find
the “seed story” or “small moment” as they chose topics.
Unit One in math concludes this week. We will have our assessment on
Wednesday afternoon. Our lessons
this week will focus on greater than and less than, temperature and addition
number stories. We will have a
pre-test for Unit 2 on Friday.
In science, we will be making our study cards for
the life cycle of the frog. We
will create a card with a picture and facts for each one of the four stages
(egg, tadpole, froglet and frog).
Students will bring home the study cards on Friday and will be able to
review them at home for the assessment next week. We will also continue to read about the life cycle of the
frog and complete our frog scavenger hunt.
We will speak about Constitution Day this week by
reading an article in Scholastic News.
Homework
starts this week! Students will
come home with their homework folder starting Monday afternoon. They are expected to complete the
nightly math assignment and return to school the next day. On days that we have an assessment
(Wednesday this week), we will not have a homework assignment. There is no homework given over the
weekend.
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