Hi Families,
I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. I wanted to send a
quick reminder regarding Valentine’s Day. If your child is bringing Valentines,
I ask that they bring one for each student in the class. We have 26 students in
our class. Cascade Heights also asks that all Valentines be handmade. I also
wanted to remind you that we have no school next Monday, February 18th.
Here is our week at a glance:
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: rough, same, glad, with, black
Tuesday: mine, chair, forget, forgot, hang
Wednesday: hung, meat, meet, seat, course
Thursday: dozen, store, rather, became, December
Math:
Enduring Understandings - The student will understand that:
• When
adding two-digit numbers, regrouping may be necessary
• Information
can be organized on a Venn Diagram
• A Venn
diagram is a way to compare two or more sets of data that may have one
characteristic in common.
Essential Questions:
• How can I
use dimes and pennies to model an example of regrouping?
• How do I
display data in a Venn diagram?
• What
questions can I answer by looking at a Venn diagram?
Mathematical Language:
• Dozen,
half dozen, subtraction, addition, Celsius, congruent, degree, Fahrenheit,
foot, graph, left, minus, month, shape, thermometer, Venn diagram, vertically
Reading: Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch
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: Space
• Sun:
source of energy, light, heat
• Moon:
phases of the moon (full, half, crescent, new)
• The eight
planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) (Note:
In 2006, Pluto was classified as a dwarf planet.)
• Stars,
Constellations, Big Dipper, The sun is a star.
• Earth and
its place in the solar system
• The earth
moves around the sun; the sun does not move.
• The earth
revolves (spins); one revolution takes one day (24 hours).
• Sunrise
and sunset
• When it
is day where you are, it is night for people on the opposite side of the earth.
B. WHAT’S INSIDE THE EARTH
• Inside
the earth
• Layers:
crust, mantle, core (draw and label)
• High
temperatures (draw and label)
• Volcanoes
and geysers (draw and label)
Thank you,
Ms. Kelsey Stacy
