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Upcoming Dates:
March 16- Field trip to Ruben H Fleet Science Museum
March 18 Jog-o-thon
March 22-26 Parent Teacher Conferences, minimum days
March 29-April 2 Spring Break
Here's where we are headed:
Reading: We have been working on character traits again. Not only should your child be able to identify multiple internal and external traits for a character but they should be able to justify with facts from the text. We have also been working on main idea and supporting details. They should be able to identify the main idea of the text, author's message, big idea and then support that with information from the text, not just restating the main idea in different ways. Continue to work on pulling out the story elements of a text with your child(characters, setting-when and where, problem-sometimes more than one, and solutions or endings). Not only do they have to verbally be able to do it but they also need to be able to write them down.
Writing: We have discussed parts of a sentence at length and how to build a powerful sentence and the teachers and I have decided to break away from that and focus on how to write a story by using text as a mentor. Basically, we read a text such as Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and we mock our own stories with the focus being on sequential order of a story and describing words. We will continue along those lines, using different texts to highlight different areas of writing.
Math: Focus on money, identification of coins and their worth. Your child should be able to make combinations of coins up to a dollar. We have wrapped up our unit on time to the hour and half hour. We are moving into a very quick chapter on patterns and then back to adding and subtracting up to 18. Many children still need to practice their facts up to 10 which will help them with the bigger facts.
Art: We hav finished with art. You will see this grade on the final report card.
Health: We have begun to talk about health. The first rotation we talke about teeth. During this time the kids will be exposed to material and then we have practice workbook pages that reinforce the vocabulary that is important. I will also have them writing exit slips at least once but maybe twice during their one week rotation with me. The exit slips are a timed writing activity where they are given about three to five minutes to write down key terms and what they mean or anything they learned on the topic. This will be my way of trying to assess them for health. Because of the pace of how much is covered, I don't have time to test so my writing activities will have to suffice.
Science-Your child will be looking at life science this last report period. There will be lots going in on Mrs. Gonzalez's class.
Social Studies- Mrs. Flores has provide me with a page of guiding questions. Feel free to take a look at them and ask your child what's happening in social studies.
Key terms for teeth were primary teeth, permanent teeth, biting teeth, chewing teeth, dentist, dental hygienist, mouthguard. Ideas: how to brush teeth and when, when to floss, and how to protect teeth.
WISH LIST
Thank you to those of you who picked up a wish
list item at back to school night.
We are truly fortunate to have very generous families.
A few remaining items if you are interested,
but by no means necessary, are the following:
Chunks- $27.99 at www.educatorsoutlet.com, #25407
Phonics Make a Match Middle Sounds- $19.95 at Lakeshore, #DD-897
Sound Switchin' Game- $24.95 at Lakeshore, #FF-692
Monkey Mayhem Building Word Families- $24.95 at Lakeshore, #FF-811