Mrs. Hepburn's Class Newsletter
December 8, 2013
News
Castlio has another week of giving that begins on Monday. Castlio families will decorate a gingerbread house by donating hats, mittens, gloves, scarves and socks in children or adult sizes. The items will be donated to the Crisis Nursery, Youth in Need and Salvation Army. If possible help us reach those in the community that could use items to keep them warm during this very cold season.
Our upcoming events for the week are: Tuesday-3rd grade Spectra and Aimsweb testing for all, Wednesday-library and 3rd grade bullying assembly, Thursday-2nd grade Spectra is cancelled, and the 2nd grade bullying assembly.
Second Grade English Language Arts
Phonics for the week: ew and eu
streusel, knew, chewed, feud, mildew, neutral, flew, curfew, few, grew, renew, neutron, deuce, sleuth, strewn, Europe
Vocabulary Words:
generation: group of individuals born and living about the same time
tradition: handing down beliefs and customs
legend: a story coming down from one generation to the next
vision: a thought or feeling that creates an image in your mind
communication: passing information from one to another
ceremony: a significant event performed for a special occasion
Students will:
- compare and contrast the habitats, resources, art and daily lives of Native American peoples; Woodland and Plains Indians
- know and use various text features to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently (non-fiction text features)
- research Plains and Woodlands Native Americans
- create a Plains Native American non-fiction text
- create an interactive website of their Flat Me's journey
- complete the fiction text Judy Moody Around the World in 8 1/2 Days
- begin a project on their reading book
Third Grade English Language Arts
Phonics for the week: combined closed and silent e
illustrate, separate, complete, dislike, describe, ignore, enclose, combine, expire, escape, textile, confiscate, behave, require, compensate, impede, membrane, mandate, athlete, expose
Vocabulary:
destruction: the act of destroying
accompanied: to join or go along with
possess: to own, occupy or control
greenhouse effect: warming of the Earth's surface and the air above it, caused by gases in the air trapping energy from the sun.
Students will:
- write a narrative using effective techniques, descriptive details and clear event sequences
- learn about biodiversity and humans: that populations live in a variety of habitats and changes in those habitats affect the organisms living there.
- compare and contrast the theme, setting and plot of stories written by Lynne Cherry
- publish a story digitally
- complete A Cricket in Times Square and begin creating a project to demonstrate their learning
Second Grade Math
Students will:
- work with money, time and data
- review amounts up to a dollar
- make change
- solve problems involving rates
- investigate duration of events
- solve problems involving elapsed time
- tell time using analog and digital times
- analyze and compare data
- make a line plot
Third Grade Math
Students will:
- explore 4-digit numbers
- model 4- and 5-digit numbers
- compare 4-digit numbers
- read thousands in various ways
- solve problems with 4-digit numbers
Contact
Email: carrie.hepburn@fhsdschools.org
Website: http://mrscarriehepburn.blogspot.com/
Phone: 636-851-4341
Twitter: @CarrieHepburn