Good Evening,
Thank you, it was really wonderful to see each of you for parent teacher conferences. I appreciate you taking the time to come in and share more about your student and to hear how they are progressing at school. Together we make a team that will help your child be a successful student all year long! We had an excellent full week! We will be moving through our curriculum with purpose and intent over the next several weeks leading up to Thanksgiving break! A couple of reminders:
Flood Hour: Flood math time focused on manipulating 2 and 3 digit numbers using base ten blocks. Flood literacy focused on discussing our novels/books and wrapping those up. We will begin new groups on Monday both for flood math and flood literacy. Math: We continued on with Unit 2 which finishes up multiplication. We focused on multiplying and dividing with 6s, 7s, and 8s. We also briefly covered square numbers. We will have our first of two quick quizzes on Monday. Literacy: Week 6 in Wonders is always a review week. We took the opportunity this week to focus heavily on writing. Your students were rock stars! They wrote a friendly letter including a first draft, revising, editing, and final copy. On Thursday, we were able to start the process for writing a personal narrative. We will continue to move through the writing process this week during our writing block. In Wonders, we will begin Unit 2 Week 1 which focuses on cooperation! Content Literacy: We started our first science unit on Monday. The unit is Measuring Matter, which covers states of matter, measurement of matter, changes that occur with matter, and more! We will be moving through this unit for the next couple of weeks. One last thing, your students filled their cotton ball jar while I was on my trip. We took the time to vote on Friday using a ballot system on their next reward. The vote came in and a special snack of popcorn with a sweet treat mixed in was the winner! We will be having this snack on Friday afternoon! Photos of students casting their ballot and with the ballot box will be on my website this week! As always please feel free to reach out if you have questions or concerns. Email works best but if you need to chat by phone or schedule a conference please let me know! Have a terrific week!
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Good Evening,
We had an excellent week! Your students are really settling into our day to day routines! I am really proud of them we had a couple of days with no one on orange or red, one day the whole class moved up to blue for being on task and working quietly during rotations, and the cotton ball jar is almost full again! I will be out this Wednesday, Thursday, and the following Monday. My husband’s grandma turns 100 next weekend so, we will be traveling back to his home state of Ohio to celebrate this unique birthday! My children are so excited to meet their great-grandma! A couple of reminders:
Flood Hour: During the flood hour students are receiving targeted instruction in both math and literacy. In math, this past week students worked on sequencing numbers with three digits, matching multiplication arrays with equations, and took a placement test on Moby Max. Moby Max is a program that targets areas specific to a single student based on their placement test. For example, a student may be working on counting from 1-100 and another student may be working on place value. In literacy, students began reading a novel, beginning chapter book, or storybook specific to their level. My goal with this first book is to encourage reading for enjoyment and to read a book from beginning to end. Depending on the group we will discuss chapters, students may write a chapter summary, or we might work on sequencing, all very specific to each reading level. We have also been working on comprehension with weekly passages and how to create a GSA. GSA stands for 'great short answer' and involves restating part of the question in our answer. This strategy helps students create complete sentences and well-rounded answers. Math: We finished unit 1 on Thursday with our final quick quiz. I was very impressed with their quiz results! We will have review on Monday for our unit 1 test which will be on Tuesday. We will begin unit 2 on Wednesday which will finish up multiplication. We will learn our 6s, 7s, 8s, and work heavily on solving word problems. Literacy: In Wonders, our stories were Mary Anderson's Great Invention (she invented windshield wipers) and All Aboard! Elijah McCoy's Steam Engine (he invented the oil cup). Our focus was on our strategy: ask and answer questions and our skill: cause and effect. We discussed metaphors, worked on the 'long a' sound and different ways to spell that sound within words, and learned 8 new vocabulary words related to our stories. Content Literacy: We continued our social studies unit on Community, Citizenship, and Responsibility. We focused this week on responsibility by discussing what it looks like when we are a good citizen. Students brainstormed different ways they show good citizenship with responsibility. They took those ideas and wrote two sentences each for home, school, and within the community. We will turn those sentences into a paragraph this coming week. As always please feel free to reach out if you have questions or concerns. Email works best but if you need to chat by phone or schedule a conference please let me know! Enjoy our first week of cooler weather! Mrs. Van Thorre |
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