Week of September 14th, 2020

 Hi Everyone!

We completed our second week of school! I have really enjoyed getting to know your children as students and as individuals!

We are still getting a feel for where a good seat is for everyone in the classroom. This week I prompted students with, "The seat I would work best is..." and they were invited to share which classroom table/spot/chair would best suit them for learning. Seats did change on Thursday, but some may still be changing. 

Does your child have a reading log? Here are the ones we are using in class. If they don't, tell them to make one (or get one from school). They were supposed to begin logging their reading last week.

For homework today (Friday, September 11th) I assigned students to take a picture of their favorite place to read. This could be at home, outside, etc. I recommend parents to send that picture to me via email or on the Remind app. Please let me know if you have and questions about this. Students were also assigned to write 10 minutes adding to their current writing piece and begin making revisions if they complete. I will be checking for both of these on Monday!

Classroom Jobs were offered this week as well. Your child was able to pick their top 3 choices from a list of 18 jobs. Students began their job today. It is going well!

Daily Health Screening - Please see this link for daily health screening. Parents should go through each of these questions with each child before the start of each school day.

Upcoming Events:

September 16th - iReady READING test (this will take the place of MAP)

September 17th - iReady MATH test

September 24th - Virtual Family Night

September 25th - No School

September 30th - Picture Day

September 30th - Ms. Burris will be out for training (I will still be in the building though)

October 1st - Ms. Burris will be out for training (I will still be in the building though)

Reading

This week we have continued fall in love in with reading. We have worked together at finding books that are just right for us, making and identifying reading goals, and figuring out how to be a strong reading partner.

Writing

This week we have been working hard at adding to our trouble stories. We have had a lot of discussion about how much adding details (dialogue, action, sense, thinking) to our stories improves them. We've also been learning about how to level up our revision process to make our writing even stronger.

Math:

We finished up a mini-unit on rounding, greater than/less than, and place value. Next week we will be reviewing our addition strategies. We took a quick quiz on Thursday and it will be coming home next week. I take the information from the quick quiz and use it to plan activities for review for the following week, to be sure your child will be successful on the test at the end of the unit. Please do not panic if your child did poorly on the quiz. We will review it before the final test. If you want to offer additional support at home, you can, but it is NOT required.

Content:

We are learning about geography! This week we learned about lines of latitude and longitude and how to read maps. Next week we will learn about regions and how to understand different types of maps!