Today I sent home midterm grades for reading and spelling. I will send home a grade for math and science after we have finished a few assessments. Grades sent home today were attached to a bright pink sheet. The bookmarks I talked about last week were also attached in the back.
Here is a description of our week:
Math- This week we rapped up 2 and 3 digit addition, although we will continue to work and review this concept all year. We took a test over place value, rounding, and addition facts. Today we started 2 digit subtraction of whole numbers. On Monday we will estimate differences (round and then subtract), on Tuesday we will start the fun of regrouping to subtract multi digit numbers. This can be rather intimidating to many students.
Reading- This past week we read
The Terrible Eek by Patricia Compton. In this story,
there is a heavy rainstorm. During the rainstorm, a wolf and a thief
misunderstand a father’s comments about is greatest fear: “a terrible leak.”
The thought it was a “terrible eek.” Talk
of this “terrible EEK” frightens the eavesdropping pair: The resulting comedy
of errors will amuse readers in this retelling of a Japanese tale. With this
story we studied
cause and effect by
examining the animals causes for misunderstanding, and what effects there
where. There was even a chance for us to create our own terrible eek.
Text Talk- This week we read Rats on the Roof
by James Marshall. This book is a compilation of seven different stories. We focused on a story about a brontosaurus who begins to eat an oak tree which is the home of an owl. The owl asks her bird friends for help and eventually the brontosaurus leaves them alone. Vocabulary words we
discussed this week are collaboration (work together), steadfast (loyal), ferocious (mean and scary), queasy (feeling sick), relocate (move), and lumbered (move slowly).
Writing- (these lessons will be different if your child goes to Mrs. Gatrost at this time)
This week we worked on writing using transition words. The students finished up their ouch stories and presented them to the class. We went from using basic notes to filling out a t-chart (looks like a capital T) and where to place the topic, big ideas. "give me more" details, and the conclusion. Today we turned our t-chart into paragraphs about a wish. I am planning on placing these in conference folders as a writing artifact. Below is an example we created as a class.
Science- A study guide went home on Thursday. We will have our test over our plant unit on Tuesday, October 9th. In case you have not seen it, can not read your child's writing, or think they made a mistake. I am including one I filled out as well.
This week we spent a couple of days reviewing parts of the plant, their jobs, and had a lot of discussion about bees! :) Today we created plant models using construction paper, labels, cupcake liners, and popcorn for seeds. I love how they turned out. I had a chance to take a picture of most of them and have them posted under the "Student Work" tab. Take a look, they are so cute and unique.
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| A puzzle with the parts of a flower |
Our plants are drying out. Next week we should be able to attempt to take some seeds out of their pods and make one final observation.
On Tuesday, the Marion firefighter will be back to talk to us. If you child has not yet turned in these sheet to become a junior firefighter, please get them in or have your child ask for a new copy on Monday and try to return them by Tuesday! :)
I hope you have a terrific weekend!
Mrs. Jodie Yuska
