We began working with a new story problem in math this week. Ask your child about the grocer with boxes of five apples. We worked on coloring in boxes with red and green apples, being careful not to duplicate a box (1 red+4 green, 2 red+3 green, etc.). It was tricky work! We practiced the first day, and then so many friends returned from being sick, that we practiced again and got the opportunity to teach our friends who'd been sick. Lastly, we challenged ourselves to mix up a bigger box of ten apples! This was much more challenging. Besides finding various ways to make ten, and being careful not to duplicate boxes, we also had to take turns and help one another. Good stuff!
We began a new unit in Writing Workshop this week: How-Tos! This is a nonfiction/teaching piece that your young author will be writing, listing out the steps to accomplish something ("How to make a snowman", "How to brush your teeth", etc.). This week we were challenged to think of an appropriate topic, plan it across pages and draw pictures to match the steps. Ask your child about his/her How-To topic.
In our science lessons we learned about snow and "Snowflake Bentley" who was the first to study/photograph snowflakes.
On Friday we launched our Reading for Information unit in Reading Workshop. We learned that reading nonfiction isn't all that different from reading fiction. Nonfiction readers use all the same strategies that fiction readers do when they are getting ready to read. We can preview a text and wonder... more about this next week!
News & Notes:
- have you returned your child's piece of narrative writing? It has a purple half-sheet stapled to the front. Please return it ASAP.
- Remember your 5 (or more) boxes of macaroni and cheese are due 2/6.
- Please send in a check for $17.70 made out to Ox Ridge Activity Account by 2/6. This is to cover the cost of buses for our last field trips this year.
- Please note the Math Parent Workshop posted below.
- Next week: Groundhog's Day predictions! Check out the groundhog's news with your child before school on the morning of 2/2! We'll discuss it in school that day.
- Also... Superbowl winner predictions! We've got a lot of football fans in our class!
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| Filling our boxes with different combinations of red and green apples to total five. |
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| Practicing sight words |
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| Writing with capitals to start a sentence |
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| "Tapping out" sounds we hear in words and sorting words by initial letter |
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| Reading books with new words to our friends |
