Dear Room 112 Families, November 28, 2016 wk 13 issue 13
Unlike November, we have a full 4 weeks of school in December! Students are working hard and lots of exciting things are happening in class, so we will definitely merit the winter break! 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 – Regular Sort, Tuesday – Speed Sort, Wednesday – Word Hunt, Thursday – Blind Sort, Friday – Glue Sort & Test. READER’S WORKSHOP This week we will read One Dog Canoe. Students will be exposed to procedural how-to writing with this first mentor text. 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: glide, peer, bound, crew, dew 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 Students have been learning key pieces to writing a personal narrative. See class stories in Class Dojo for mini-lessons on transition words, strong beginning and end, showing emotion not just telling, and much more. We will begin procedural how-to writing next week. MATH In Math, we are coming to a close on Unit 3. In Unit 4, students will focus on length, addition facts using “doubles” and “helper doubles.” Personally, I enjoy this unit very much. There are many “Aha!” moments in this unit and it is a great foundation skill the kids will always use. SCIENCE Sound and Light, Oh My! This week we are gathering KLEWS (science version of CLUES) to find out what we Know, want to L, what Evidence we want to gather, and Science terms learned from our Sound and Light unit. SOCIAL STUDIES This time of year it is all about Traditions! Traditions! Traditions!
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