Weekly Update 11/30

I hope you all enjoyed some relaxing family time.  I enjoyed meeting with you all for parent/teacher conferences last week.  

We are heading into new month of learning with a FULL week of school!  Here are a few things we will be doing…

In math we are beginning a new unit which focuses on measurement.  At the beginning of the week we’ll discuss telling time on an analog clock.  We’ll review clock vocabulary, as well as practice telling time to the nearest hour, half hour, and 5 minutes. 

For writing this week we will look more at editing strategies writer’s can use to make their writing sound better.  We’ll discuss how to use a variety of sentence beginnings, as well as how to write with a variety of sentence lengths.  We will do some practice with these skills as we fix up our own and others’ writing. 

Our guided reading groups continue to go well.  We will continue responding to reading in both words and writing.  The children will have ample opportunity to practice their independence during Daily 5 each day.  We will also get to try out some more “Read to Someone” during some of our Daily 5 rounds.

Our next few science lessons will be focused on gases.  We will learn that gases actually have weight and take up space.  We will also be reviewing all the states of matter, as well as practicing sorting matter using the properties we’ve been discussing.