Readers’ Workshop
This week, the students go wild over books! We will be exploring our
classroom library and students will be selecting texts for their personal
reading bags. Your child is welcome to
bring one book from their reading bag home each night for part of their
20 minutes of required nightly reading. We will stress the importance of selecting
"just right" books. A book is "just right" if there are no
more than 3 unknown words, your child reads with ease and fluency, and your
child understands and can discuss what they have read. Please take a look at the
books your child reads each night. Ensure it is not too easy or too difficult. If you have questions
about this, feel free to email us!
We are introducing our year-long reading project,
Reading Bingo this week. This project will be housed in your child's Reader's
Notebook (a blue folder). Students will be given a Reading Bingo board with
the goal of reading six books a nine weeks. This goal aligns with our Readers to Leaders,
Million Word Campaign. Students may choose to
bounce around the bingo board to genres of choice, or may aim for five in a row
(with one additional box) for a prize. For each book read, students must complete a
response. Response options and
deadlines can be found in your child's Reader's Notebook.
Writers’ Workshop
In connection
with our "Walk on the Wild Side" theme, our first writing unit will
ask students to recall a time when they got a little wild! We will be writing
personal narratives, focused on a time when students pushed themselves to try
something new (a food, activity, etc.). After brainstorming ideas, we will be creating an
illustration of a key moment to help us note the importance of details.
Skills
Students will receive
their spelling lists in the near future. Spelling homework & tests will begin the week of
September 9th.
Math
We will begin the new school year with a mathematics unit about
addition and subtraction called Collections and Travel Stories. In this unit, students practice and refine addition and
subtraction strategies and focus on different types of subtraction problems. They will develop an understanding of the place value of
3-digit numbers, and we will be doing many activities that illustrate the size
of the number 1,000.
The students are currently working on a yellow Math packet that is
to be kept in their ROAR folder. Please being this to school daily.
The first Math quiz will be coming soon. Please check the planner each night for more
information.
Science
In Chapter 1, we are learning how to think like a scientist and
function in a laboratory setting. We will investigate the types of questions scientists ask, how
scientists make inquiries, how scientists form explanations, and how scientists
safely utilize tools to make observations. We are also learning how to record
data and the importance of staying organized.
Your child is using a Science workbook and Science Interactive
Journal during class each day; these tools help us to stay organized and should
be used to prepare for quizzes and tests throughout the year.
Social Studies
Our lesson focuses on Chapter 1, Lesson 1: What is a community? We will fill out and discuss the blue Social
Studies sheet each day in class and the quiz will be on Friday, August 30th. Study the blue sheet nightly!
We will begin
our Social Studies lessons next week, focusing on communities. Be sure to look in the ROAR folder for the
blue sheet.
