Class News
January 24, 2019
Reminders:
-PRACTICE sight words and read guided reading books nightly!! Please make sure you are signing your child's reading log.
Upcoming Assessments Next Week: PLEASE READ
Teachers will also be assessing student knowledge of long vowel sounds in words as well as identifying 2D and 3D shapes. These assessments are based on state and county standards and your student's scores will be shared at conferences in February!
Next week, we are learning...
In reading, we will celebrate Penguin & Polar Bear week! We will be reading fiction and nonfiction texts about the animals. With the fiction texts, students will be responding to the story by completing a story map about the characters, setting, and major events in a text. Students need to be able to identify the main idea and three supporting details about the story/topic.
In writing, we will continue our unit of study on "How To" writings....
*use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to tell about a topic.
*Their organization needs to reflect planning and students need to be able to add details to strengthen their writing (first, next, then, last).
*Students need to be able to produce simple sentences, print legibly all upper and lower case letters, capitalize the first words in a sentence and the pronoun "I"
*Errors in writing should not interfere with the meaning and structure of the sentence.
In word work, we will be finishing our study of long vowels (a,e,i,o,u) next week. Please review these sounds with your child at home. Students will be assessed over their understanding of vowel sounds by identifying the medial vowel sound in three letter words.
In math, we will continue to identify 3D shapes. Students will need to be to identify a sphere, cylinder, cube, and cone. Also, students will need to be able to use the term "faces" to describe the 2D shape they see when exploring a 3D shape. For example, "A cube has 6 faces. The faces are the shape of a square. "
In science, we will continue our study of rocks and soils. This short unit of study is the beginning of our study of living and non-living objects and will help students to understand the unit of study about plants later in the school year. Students will be looking at sand and soil with magnifying glasses and drawing pictures of what they notice.