Thank you so much for all the goodies this week. Between the cards, flowers, and goodies, I can you tell you that you all definitely know how to make a teacher feel appreciated:-)
Literacy
Writing: In writing, we continued to write about small moments. The kids wrote about a time they got hurt focusing on how they felt, what they said, and their actions. Even more, we worked on adding sentences that showed how our feeling changed from the beginning of our story, to the end.
Weekly Sight Words: what, that
These words join our other sight words from the quarter "in", "some", "your", "where". Make sure to ask your child to show you the gestures for these sight words.
Reading: We reviewed the word families -ip, -ot, and -ug that we have worked on in the past. Word families are important in that the more word families they know, the more words they can decode. Words from these word families will be going home in your child's homework this week to practice.
As always, the kids continue to make growth individually during guided reading. This week, we adding the strategy of "chunking" to determine unknown words. For example, the word "jumping", the kids would chunk the work they know 'jump' to help them figure out the word.
Math:
We continue to work on representing/solving "plus/take away stories". It is important that the kids be able to share not just the solution, but how they know how to solve it. For example, "How did you know that was a plus story? How do you know that 4 and 5 are the partners in the equation?" Research has shown that "math talk" is just as important to cementing student understanding of math concepts as being able to find the solution.
Special Schedule for 5/13-5/17
Monday: Music
Tuesday: Curriculum Focus
Wednesday: Technology
Thursday: PE 1
Friday: PE 2
Please take a look at the important dates for May/June, as there are a lot of fun things coming up:-)
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