February 6-10

Hello,

Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching!  If you are able to donate something for our party please let me know. Thank you!

Upcoming Events:

February 7: Early Release

February 9-10: Math Staff Developer here!

February 14: Valentine’s Day

February 17: Six Flags Reading Logs Due

February 23: Early Release

February 24: No School for Students

February 27: Family Night: Music, MasterPieces and Munchies

Reading: In reading we are beginning a new unit, Readers Get to Know Characters by Performing Their Books. In this unit we will focus on ways to get to know a character and pretend we are the characters and perform our books to become character experts. This week we will get to know our characters by using the title, cover and back of book to get ourselves thinking about the character, thinking about what we learn about the character on each page and putting the pages together to see what we can learn about our character, and pay attention to the ending and see what it can teach us about our character. We are getting to know our characters like friends!

Writing: In writing this week we are using checklists to make sure that each and every part of our opinion writing is as strong as it can be.  We will then prepare our book reviews for publication.  We are especially looking at conventions as we finish up this unit.  We will have our on demand at the end of the week.  Our next unit will be Writing Like Scientist.  

Word Work: The new words this week are: an, may, ride, get, there, what. Please have your child practice these words on a regular basis. As they become fluent with them, it’s helps them with their reading and writing.

Math:  In math we will continue to practice adding three numbers.  Students are using a variety of strategies to solve these equations!  They are doing great! We will also, start some work with counting.  We will count large quantities of objects by tens and ones, practice counting and writing numbers to 120 and then practice finding 10 more or 10 less than a two-digit number.  

Content: Yesterday we investigated two new solids using the properties of solids that we studied last week.  This week we will begin to observe and describe liquids.  We will look at six different properties: opacity, color, feel, viscosity, buoyancy in water, and miscibility in water.