Weekly Update

 

Hello Families,

We made it through a full week of school with no late starts, early outs, or cancellations! It felt good to be in a normal routine, and it seemed to keep the children engaged and on task. We had a very productive week with lots of new learning!

Math

Tens and ones was the theme this week. We completed 4 different lessons on the meaning of tens and ones. We know how to write in expanded form, write the number from a picture, and draw a picture to represent a number. Good practice for home is to ask your child how many tens and ones are in any given 2 digit number. You can also give your child a number in expanded form and his him/her to tell you the number. (50 + 2)

Reading Workshop

Great readers use their five senses to visualize text as they read. We practiced visualizing a day at the beach before we tackled visualizing text. Next we practiced visualizing a page from “Mailing May,” and we finished the week visualizing two different poems, “Green Giant” and “Dirt on My Shirt.”

Writer’s Workshop

We finished our personal narratives and did a fun opinion writing activity. Ask your child about “Duck or Rabbit.” J

This Week I Really Learned!

Thank you for writing to your child each week. We were not able to write out letters this week with all of the Valentine’s festivities. Feel free to have your child write a letter to you at home and/or write to your child anyway. J We added a sentence to our letters this week. Each child needed to start his/her letter with, “This week was ____________________.”

Word Workshop

We learned two more ways to spell words with long a. These are vowel teams ai and ay. We know that ay comes at the end of a word and ai comes in the middle. Sometime a long a word is spelled with a vowel consonant silent e. There is no rule for this. The children have learned they have to try both ways to see which looks right, and they’ll get better at this the more they READ! J

Grammar

We practiced contractions with not again this week. We emphasized using doesn’t and don’t correctly.  We know to use doesn’t with he, she, and when naming objects and to use don’t with we, they, and I.

Other

We are on our last 3 boxes of tissues. If you have an extra box you’d like to send, we’d be very thankful! Thank you for those that have already come in! J Also, thank you to all of the families who sharpen pencils for us! I can’t tell you how much it helps us out every day. J

Have a wonderful weekend!