Dear Room 112 Families, January 30, 2017 wk 20 issue 20
January has come and gone in the blink of an eye! Thank you for all your support and flexibility as we overcome sicknesses, and catch up from Teacher and student absences. We are in the home stretch of Q2 and students are working hard and playing hard! Don’t forget our fundraiser this Thursday, 2/3! $35 advanced purchase on our school website or $40 at the door. Check school website for time and location details. THIS WEEK IN: WORD STUDY Students started sorting activities throughout the week in their word study notebooks to prepare for their spelling test on Friday. Monday – Write In Sort, Tuesday – Speed Sort, Wednesday – Word Hunt, Thursday – Blind Sort, Friday – Glue Sort & Test. READER’S WORKSHOP This week we will read Ada Twist Scientist by Andrea Beaty. Students will dig deeper into the text through each reading. We will discuss the meanings of the vocabulary words, identify the setting, characters and story parts in the text. Most importantly, we will discuss character actions and how they affect the story’s outcome. VOCABULARY OF THE WEEK: frazzled, spree, dazed, chaos, havoc, quest, queried, gawk SIGHT WORDS OF THE WEEK: Individualized list in your child’s folder. Please make sure they can read them and spell them correctly for the test. WRITER’S WORKSHOP We are nearing the end of our How-To writing books. We will have an Author Celebration this Thursday, February 2nd. MATH In Math, we started our number scrolls. Kids love them! We are discussing comprehension symbols, and using place value to help with two digit addition and subtraction. SCIENCE Students are recognizing different pitch and gathering information from different levels of sound/vibrations. SOCIAL STUDIES We continue to explore traditions with an Author study of Patricia Polacco. Q3 will bring us to study traditions then and now as well as explore ancestors.
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