Good Afternoon,
February is here…brrr it’s cold outside! We had a terrific week of learning and practicing growing our minds and hearts! A couple of reminders:
Flood Hour: Flood math and reading time is focused on skills specific to your student. We alternate daily between the focus being on math or reading. Your student should be able to tell you the skill their group is working to master in order to improve their iReady test scores. Math: We are moving through unit 4 and will finish it on February 11th. Students took quick quiz #2 to assess their skills for 3 digit addition this past week. Those will come home next week. We will have quick quiz #3 on February 8th and unit assessment on the 10th. During this unit we are working on rounding to the nearest ten, hundred, and thousand. We are targeting addition and subtraction with 3 digits and finding different ways to solve the problem using grouping. Literacy: We are moving right along in literacy. We focus weekly on standards: this past week we focused on the standard of being able to sequence a non-fiction text. Your students are reading a lot of material during the week. As it comes home it would be great practice to keep it for rereading which increases fluency and comprehension. We started novel literature circles this week, we will meet every Friday to discuss their weekly reading assignment and job. Depending on your child’s group they are reading either Bud, Not Buddy, Frindle, Lemonade War, A Snow Day from the Black Lagoon, or have a book baggie of books. Writing: I am so impressed with how hard your students are working on their research! We are wrapping up the editing stages and moving into final copy! By the end of next week we will have wrapped up penguin research and moved into planet research to accompany our solar system unit! Content Literacy: This week we learned about Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune! Next week we will move into Earth’s moon and studying it for a couple of days! 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 weekend! Jessica Van Thorre
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