This week is the Cat Griz Spirit Week. Look at the following post to see the theme for each day!
Reading: This is our last week exploring how science helps us have fun. We will be reviewing the informational (non-fiction) and realistic fiction stories, Science at Play and Owl Moon. The students will review the practice of skimming and scanning a story to find text evidence (such as chapter namers, captions, and bold words) to answer a question. We will also practice finding words that identify a sequence of events in order to understand how a story is organized.
Vocabulary: The students will be reviewing the different vocabulary words from this Unit by writing sentences that link them to science, sorting into different parts of speech, and practicing them at the different reading groups.
Spelling: The spelling pattern focus this week is on the short vowel /o/ sound, spelled as "a before l", "o", and "aw".
Writing: The students will be identifying and highlighting different organizational structures of informative writing.
Math: Each day, the students will be practicing skip-counting, problem-solving with problems about area, and completing a lesson from the Math textbook. This will be our last week focusing strictly on area and the properties of multiplication to solve area problems.
Art: The students will be using paper scraps, color, and drawing to create a great horned owl.
I hope that everyone has a great week!
Miss Kimpton
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Sunday, November 16, 2014
Cat Griz Week!
To celebrate the upcoming Cat Griz game, we are dressing up at Sandstone! The following are our outfits for each day:
Monday: Pajama Day
Friday: Cat Griz Day
Monday: Pajama Day
Tuesday: Cowboy/Cowgirl Day
Wednesday: Wacky Wednesday (crazy mis matching outfits)
Thursday: 70’s Groovy Day
Friday: Cat Griz Day
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Nov. 10 to Nov. 14
This week and last have been very busy and out of the routine! For those of you that I have been able to conference with, thank you so much for your time and conversations about your children. I appreciate your help so much in helping them learn and grow. I will be sending home a copy of our notes from the conferences next week.
For those of you that I have not yet been able to conference with because of my illness, I will reschedule with you as soon as I am back to feeling better. It does not work very well for me to be sick, and I really dislike inconveniencing you.
This week, the kiddos have been learning a lot, even if I have not been able to be there for quite a bit of it! We have had some great substitute teachers, and I have notes on my desk each day telling me how great the class is.
Here are some of our learning target points this week:
Reading: The students are reading a literature selection (realistic fiction) titled Owl Moon. Some of the reading strategies that they are focusing on this week are identifying different text features (chapter titles, highlighted words, etc.) and making predictions.
Vocabulary: shadow
Writing: Our class is exploring the differences between narrative (story-type writing) and expository (information-based, instructions, persuasive-type writing) writing. The have sorted different elements of the two types of writing, and they will be sorting writing prompts into the two different categories.
Problem Solving: The students will be working on a problem called "The Frustrated Farmer" in which a farmer needs to complete a task in a set order. This will help them work on trying different option, developing perseverance, and working through frustrations.
Math: We are continuing to explore area and apply multiplication strategies and developing knowledge to solve problems based on area.
Spelling: This week, the focus is on the vowel sound found in "clown".
Again, thank you for your patience with the variances in the schedule over the last two weeks.
Miss Kimpton
For those of you that I have not yet been able to conference with because of my illness, I will reschedule with you as soon as I am back to feeling better. It does not work very well for me to be sick, and I really dislike inconveniencing you.
This week, the kiddos have been learning a lot, even if I have not been able to be there for quite a bit of it! We have had some great substitute teachers, and I have notes on my desk each day telling me how great the class is.
Here are some of our learning target points this week:
Reading: The students are reading a literature selection (realistic fiction) titled Owl Moon. Some of the reading strategies that they are focusing on this week are identifying different text features (chapter titles, highlighted words, etc.) and making predictions.
Vocabulary: shadow
Writing: Our class is exploring the differences between narrative (story-type writing) and expository (information-based, instructions, persuasive-type writing) writing. The have sorted different elements of the two types of writing, and they will be sorting writing prompts into the two different categories.
Problem Solving: The students will be working on a problem called "The Frustrated Farmer" in which a farmer needs to complete a task in a set order. This will help them work on trying different option, developing perseverance, and working through frustrations.
Math: We are continuing to explore area and apply multiplication strategies and developing knowledge to solve problems based on area.
Spelling: This week, the focus is on the vowel sound found in "clown".
Again, thank you for your patience with the variances in the schedule over the last two weeks.
Miss Kimpton
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