Mrs. Hepburn Class Newsletter
October 21, 2013
News this Week
First of all, I have been working on a new website. I am trying to find a one stop shop site that allows me to keep parents up to date about things going on in the classroom. Also, one that will allow me to place documents, videos and links for students to access. I am hopeful after investigating various options this will work out better than the wiki that I am currently using and definitely better than the district provided site. You can access the site at http://mrscarriehepburn.blogspot.com/ . Hopefully you will find it easier to navigate and the links useful.
This week neither grade will have Spectra. On Wednesday the students will return to the library to check out books. On Friday there will be picture retakes and Trunk or Treat in the parking lot that evening.
English Language Arts
Common Core this week for Second Grade
Students will need a food label from a box of cereal by Wednesday. If you have more than one type of cereal and could send in more than one label it would be appreciated.
Phonics for the week: Silent letters: kn; lk
knee, knead, kneeling, knight, balk, walk, yolk, stalk, caulk, polka, yolk, stalk
In class students will:
- read My Plate and You and discuss how the food pyramid has evolved to the plate
- write a comparing and contrasting paragraphs regarding articles written about fast food restaurants implementing options to offer healthy food choices to kids
- Ask and answer questions about how food companies hire food stylists to dress up food for ads or commercials
- look at serving sizes of favorite cereals
- discuss marketing of cereals to a target audience (them)
- develop an advertisement persuading the consumer to purchase a product they design (i.e. paper advertisement, video commercial, Glogster, Voice Thread
Common Core this week for Third Grade
Phonics for the week: Open and Closed Syllable Review
lobster, alligator, vacant, behave, dieting, bandit, umbrella, silent, submarine, mascot, contact, signal, omitting, student, fantastic, triumph, license, nostril, migrate, potato
lobster, alligator, vacant, behave, dieting, bandit, umbrella, silent, submarine, mascot, contact, signal, omitting, student, fantastic, triumph, license, nostril, migrate, potato
In class students will:
- compare and contrast Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fasted Runner and Wilma Rudolph: Olympic Champion
- write an opinion piece about a text
- write a health goal
- compare and contrast How to Train a T-Rex and Win 8 Gold Medals and Michael Phelps
- write an opinion piece about Michael Phelps
- Discuss self-esteem and body image using the texts Halfway to Perfect and The Monster Health Book
Second Grade Math
Students will:
- investigate Place-Value Patterns
- work with Growing Patterns
- create a number line
- regroup: trade 1 ten for 10 ones
- logic and reasoning
- Extension Option:
Create a newspaper educating students about growing patterns. It could teach number patterns, changing patterns in geometric shapes, how patterns are used in every day life or how learning numeric patterns helps understand math.
Third Grade Math
Students will:
- investigate patterns in numbers
- work on fact fluency in multiplication
- compare and contrast multiplication and addition