Hi Families,
I hope that everyone had a wonderful
weekend. I am so unbelievably proud of our human body projects. It is evident
that the students worked extremely hard on these. I saw noticeable growth in the
presentations compared to our Ancient Egypt presentations. I am so excited
about the overall growth I am seeing in reading, writing, and math. I cannot
wait to share their growth with you this Thursday at 6:30. We will meet in my
classroom.
Our presentations ended our human body
unit. We are now entering SPACE! If you have any ideas you’d like to share with
me regarding field trip or guest speaker suggestions, please reach out to me.
We will be going to the planetarium at OMSI on February 22.
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: every, more, less, wind, print
Tuesday: air, room, roam, along, lost
Wednesday: empty, full, skip, hop,
stop
Thursday: rough, same, glad, with,
black
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:
Mean Soup by Betsy Everitt
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
