I'm looking forward to another great week of learning! This fall weather has me craving pumpkins, apples, and crunchy leaves and I'm looking forward to learning about all of these things with your scholars in the upcoming month!
This week we are learning about...
Phonics: We are learning about consonant teams this week. We are practicing reading and spelling sounds and syllables containing ch, th, sh, wh, qu, and ng. Whew! These consonant teams are helping us read some tricky words and allow us to read harder and harder stories.
Writing: Our authors are continuing to make their stories come alive by learning ways to unfreeze our characters. This week we are learning to show our readers how are character think and feel. We are hard at work creating stories that our readers want to read and can't put down.
Reading: We are continuing to work on fix up strategies we can use when we get stuck on tricky words. We are also continuing to meet daily in small groups and reading some great books together with our teammates.
Math: We are working on becoming critical thinkers and looking at multiple solutions to problems. This week we will spend time making our own graphs based on questions that are meaningful to us. We will then ask teammates around our school our questions, and make a tally chart to record their answers. We will graph our information on a bar graph to organize our thinking.
We have our first field trip this week! We are going to the library, then having a reading picnic at Loose Park, followed by a trip to the Reading Reptile children's book store for a workshop. It promises to be a fun filled day. Remember, field trips are a PRIVILEGE and are earned by excellent choices at school.
Have a fantastic week and as always, please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns :)
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