Hi Families!
I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.
I cannot believe I missed such a crazy week last week. I hope you had a
wonderful snow day! I wanted to remind you that this Thursday night is our Core
Knowledge Showcase. Here is some information regarding the showcase:
You are invited to join the staff and students of Cascade
Heights on March 7th at 6:30 PM for an evening performance highlighting Core
Knowledge units by all 9 classes. Each class will perform twice, once in
the gym and once in the cafeteria, so feel free to sit in either room.
Our evening performance begins at 6:30 PM. Family and friends
may take their seats beginning at 6:10 while students make their way to their
classrooms. We are expecting a full house, so be there early for the best
seats. Guests may park in the staff parking lot on the north side of the
building, in front of our building, and in the gravel parking lot south of the
building. We ask that everyone enter through the front doors, unless you need
an accessible entrance. If you have someone with you that needs a more
accessible entrance, you may pull into the staff parking lot, park in the
accessible spot, and use the buzzer on the breezeway door.
Reminders:
~ Students can wear their school uniform.
~There will be concessions available for purchase.
~ The single user bathroom is located to the right as you exit
the gym.
~ You are more than welcome to take pictures or film the show,
but please do so from your seat or standing in the back of the room.
~ Please silence your cell phone and all other noise making
devices.
~ At the end of the performance, students will need to be picked up from their
classrooms. Please send one parent down to pick them up. In order to minimize
interruptions to the performance, students will not be released until the end
of the show
Please let me know if you have any
questions. Here is our week at a glance for the next two weeks:
Riggs:
Continuing multiletter phonograms, daily spelling words! Please remember to go
over your child’s spelling words with them every night. They are tested every
morning on their words. You can make it fun! Write in shaving cream, pudding,
bathroom markers, dry erase markers on the window, etc. You can find their
words in their Riggs notebook and planner.
Monday: shall, may, might, would,
could
Tuesday: week, weak, mile, sent, cent
Wednesday: cents, sense, seem, seems,
six
Thursday: were, see, saw, seen, even
Math:
Enduring Understandings - The student
will understand that:
•
numbers can be
shown using a drawing or picture
•
when adding
two-digit numbers, the sum may be greater than 100
•
there are
five-minute intervals between each number on the clock
•
the median is the
number in the middle of a set of numbers ordered from least to greatest
Essential Questions:
•
How can I draw a
picture to show the amount for a three-digit number?
•
How can I tell if
the sum of two-digit numbers will be greater than 100?
•
How can counting
by 5’s help me tell the time?
•
How do I find the
median of a set of numbers?
Mathematical Language:
• capacity, cubes, cup, difference,
flip, full, gallon, greater than, half-inch, median, liter, minute, quart,
fewest, greatest, half hour, hour, least, left, length, line segment, minus,
o’clock, parallelogram, subtract, subtraction
Reading: The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig
Comparing texts using a Venn diagram
Ask and answer questions about key
details in a text.
Retell stories, including key details,
and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
Describe characters, settings, and
major events in a story, using key details.
Explain major differences between
books that tell stories and books that give information. Reading a range of
text types.
Use illustrations and details in a
story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
Identify the main topic and retell key
details of a text.
Know and apply grade-level phonics and
word analysis skills in decoding words.
Read with sufficient accuracy and
fluency to support comprehension.
IEW/Writing:
Students will continue participating in choral reading of source texts, create
story sequencing charts, locate nouns and verbs in sentences, and write key
word outlines. Using those key word outlines, we are now practicing sentence and
paragraph writing. We also write about our weekly reading on Writing Wednesday!
We then practice illustrating our writing.
Core Knowledge: American Revolution
·
FROM COLONIES TO INDEPENDENCE: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
o Locate the
original thirteen colonies.
o The Boston
Tea Party
o Paul Revere’s ride, “One if by land, two if by
sea”
o Minutemen and
Redcoats, the “shot heard round the world”
o Thomas
Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal. . . .”
o Fourth of July
o Benjamin
Franklin: patriot, inventor, writer
o George
Washington: from military commander to our first president
§ Martha
Washington
§ Our national
capital city named Washington
o Legend of
Betsy Ross and the flag
·
EARLY EXPLORATION OF THE AMERICA WEST
o Daniel Boone
and the Wilderness Road
o The Louisiana
Purchase
§ Explorations
of Lewis and Clark
§ Sacagawea
o Geography:
Locate the Appalachian Mountains, the Rocky Mountains, and the Mississippi
River.
Thank you,
Ms. Kelsey Stacy
