We continue to strengthen our reading muscles and work on our partnering skills in Reading Workshop. We learned how a partner listens carefully and doesn't miss it when a friend makes a mistake. Good partners catch mistakes and help one another through.
This week's paper book "Where We Go" is the last of the year! Please continue to ask your child to read these paper books and, more importantly, the Just Right books in their book sleeve.
Our How To books are getting more detailed! This week, we learned that "How To" authors usually begin their writing with a list of things you'll need, and sometimes they use
BOLD for important words. We can write like that, too! Ask your child what s/he is writing about.
We continued to build and take apart teen numbers this week, building with straws and sticks and on the smart board. We're learning about place value. We also collected and organized a lot of data this week. We predicted what would happen on Groundhog's Day and who would win the Super Bowl! See the photos below for your child's thoughts.
Our current science unit is on matter. This week, we examined items and used our five senses to make predictions, sort and classify. We organized groups of natural vs. man-made, items made from glass, plastic, wood and metal, items that attract vs. repel magnets and items that are heavy vs. light. We really enjoyed conducting classroom experiments this week!
We also gathered January's weather data and discussed special days on our February calendar.
Ask your child about Wednesday's bus meeting. All Ox Ridge students met in classrooms by bus and listened to 4th and 5th graders teach them how to follow our code while riding the bus together.
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| Matter: Natural or Man-Made? |
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| Recording data in our science journals |
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| Playing with rods and cubes |
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| Using rods and cubes to learn place value and build teen numbers |
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| Using the Smartboard for place value lessons |
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| TWO ways to make 20! Woah! |
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| Matter: Sorting by material |
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| Collecting and organizing data: Our preferred winter activity |
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| Our groundhog predictions |
News and Notes:
- We have 68 of our 100 cans of tuna so far. Please send in your 5 cans if you have not done so. Our goal is to have 100 for the 100th Day of school- NEXT WEDNESDAY!
- Book sleeves are due on Monday
- 2/14 Kindergarten valentine show at 9:30 am. Save the date!
- It's almost Dr. Seuss week! Be on the lookout for news coming home about how we'll celebrate each day of the week of 2/26. There will be something special for your child to wear each day. Hat Day, Silly Sock Day, Twin Tuesday... etc. More information coming soon!
