Mrs. Hepburn's Class Newsletter
December 2nd-6th, 2013
What is going on?
I hope you have heard about the projects taking place in our classroom. The students have been creating book trailers through I-Movie the past couple of weeks on a book they read in their reading group. To check out the ones that are completed visit our class website on the classroom projects page. The students who haven't completed their projects yet, should be finished by Thursday. Also, our second graders are working on an interactive website to illustrate where their "Flat Me's" traveled and allow visitors to hear of the tales each Flat Me experienced. The third graders are completing a comparing and contrasting Glogster project during WIN time with a student from another classroom. As you can see we have A LOT taking place in our room, it's all great stuff!!!
All students will visit the library on Wednesday, so please make sure they return their library books by then.
The second grade students have Spectra on Thursday.
Castlio raised over $1,200 for Toys for Tots during the Turkey Teacher fundraiser. Thank you for your support for this wonderful organization!
2nd Grade English Language Arts
Phonics for the week: igh
highway, sighed, thigh, bright, right, delight, fighter, tight, knight, sight, alright, night, high, flight, mighty, flashlight
Vocabulary Words:
native: a person born in a particular place
region: broad geographic area that is distinguished by similar features
island: piece of land surrounded by water
Students will:
- identify the main purpose of a text
- describe the connection between a series of history events
- compare and contrast the habitats , resources, art and daily lives of Native American people
- research using texts: How Would You Survive as an American Indian, Who were the First North Americans?, Life in the Longhouse, Life in a Plains Camp, Native Homes, North American Indians, The First Strawberry, Those Shoes
- Write a narrative journal that describes actions, thoughts and feelings
The new book for their reading group is titled Judy Moody Around the World in 8 1/2 Days. It should take a couple of weeks to complete and the students will have the freedom of choice for the end of the book project.
3rd Grade English Language Arts
Phonics for the weeks: Suffixes: -ment, -ness
monument, promptness, politeness, refreshment, artfulness, forgiveness, goodness, happiness, statement, document, treatment, amazement, amendment, apartment, placement, awkwardness, astonishment, quaintness, blissfulness, fragment
Vocabulary:
cope: to deal with problems or difficulties in a calm way
migrate: to move from one region or climate to another
Students will:
- research the writing style of author Lynne Cherry and write a narrative using her style of writing
- compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author
- describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events
- describe social interactions and group behaviors in animals
- describe biodiversity and humans (populations lie in a variety of habitats, and change in those habitats affects the organisms living there)
- read texts The Sea, the Storm and the Mangrove Tangle, A River Ran Wild, The Armadillo from Amarillo, The Great Kapok Tree, Making a Difference in the World
The new book for their reading group is titled Cricket in Times Square. It should take a couple of weeks to complete and the students will have the freedom of choice for the end of the book project.
2nd Grade Math
Students will:
- apply various strategies to solve addition problems
- apply multiple strategies to solve subtraction problems
- explain their thinking
3rd Grade Math
Students will:
- interpret and analyze data on a graph
- collect data
- create various graphs
- create questions to help others analyze data
Kate
Paige
Jerome
Contact Information
Email: carrie.hepburn@fhsdschools.org
Website: http://mrscarriehepburn.blogspot.com/
Phone: 636-851-4341
Twitter: @CarrieHepburn