Hi Families!
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and are having a great Superbowl Sunday! I just wanted to send out our weekly newsletter so you know what we have been up to. Math: We are continuing to work on the concept of heavier than and lighter than. This week we started talking about capacity and the conservation of it. Students also practiced using counting collections (students are given a bag of items and are asked to count them and explain their thinking) with a partner which helps students to not only work together but also explain their thinking in a variety of ways. In addition, we continued working on word problems. This is something that we will continue to focus on throughout the remainder of the year. As we develop our understanding and ability to independently complete word problems, students will be given a variety of strategies that they can use to show their thinking. Reading/Phonics: We started our work on beginning sounds, students had to sort pictures based upon which letter they started with. We will continue to work on beginning sounds and will start ending sounds soon. In addition, we worked on creating our own individual word wall. Students worked on adding more sight words to their word bank which in turn, helps them stay focused when tracking their reading. We also talked about the importance of sight words and how they are words that they can't always sound out and need to be able to identify in a snap. Writing: Students worked on adding to their true stories. We worked on pushing ourselves to write sentences with spaces and punctuation. I am so proud of how hard students have been working on these stories, they have some great ones to share! On Friday, we talked about the importance of rereading our writing so that it makes sense for our audience. If we don't reread our writing it might not make sense to whoever is reading our story. Science: This week we started our new unit on solids, liquids, and gases. We first started with an inquiry lesson, students were given a variety of images (that represented solids, liquids, and gases) and were asked to sort them into two or three piles. Students had to come up with an explanation for each pile (I did not give them an explanation of what the picture cards represented). We then watched a BrainPop video on solids, liquids and gases. If you and your student would like to re-watch thisvideo you can access it via their Clever account. We will continue our exploration of the unit this week. Social Studies: We read It's Okay to be Different by Todd Par and talked about how everyone is different which in turn makes us all unique. Students were then asked to draw a picture and write a sentence about what makes them different/ unique and we were able to celebrate our differences! Other news:
Please let me know if you have any questions regarding this newsletter. As always, thank you so much for all that you do! Have a great rest of your evening.
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