I hope you enjoyed your three day weekend. I'm sure the kiddos needed some rest after our first few weeks of school. This week, we have a lot to pack into our four day week, including a Bluebonnet kickoff lesson from our librarian. See below for details about our learning for the upcoming week.
Reading: We'll continue to read fiction stories while learning strategies good readers use to comprehend, including visualizing, asking questions, making predictions, and using cues from the text to help understand when to gather information and when to visualize. I will continue to conduct beginning of the year reading assessments while students continue to build reading stamina. Writing: Last week, we generated ideas for personal narratives and began writing stories from our lives. This week, we'll learn how to zoom in on a small moment, add details, and stretch a moment using sequential order. Also, we'll work on grammar skills using a mentor sentence from a quality narrative story. Math: We'll continue collecting, recording, and interpreting data using pictographs, bar graphs, and dot plots. Additionally, we'll solve one and two-step problems using categorical data represented in frequency tables, pictographs, bar graphs, and dot plots. As part of our spiral review we'll compare and represent numbers up to 1,200 to review place value concepts. Science: Our focus will be on classifying matter based on physical properties. We will investigate the ability to sink and float, measure mass & temperature, and explore magnetism. Students will begin using Stemscopes, our online science resource, this week as they complete an interactive investigation and read about matter. Social Studies: We'll learn about the importance of voting and good citizenship. We are starting Class Dojo this week! You should have received an email inviting you to join our class on Class Dojo. If you didn't, please email me. Have a great week!
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November 2019
Mrs. Swyers3rd Grade Teacher |