The first 3 weeks of school have gone by so quickly and we have already done so much!
In Language Arts, the essential question of our unit is "What do you do at your school?". With that question, students have been able to focus on making connections to realistic fiction and nonfiction texts read aloud about this topic by comparing key details from those stories to their own lives at school and in the classroom. We have been learning how to visualize what is happening in a story as we are hearing it and create pictures in our minds. We have been able to do this by not only making connections to our own lives, but comparing two texts that are about the same topic. The sound we have been focusing on is the short /a/ sound and words that have that phoneme in the beginning, middle, and end of the word. We also focused on the inflectional ending -s (i.e. I nap = he naps, I pat = he pats, etc.). Our high frequency words this week are does, not, school, and what. In writing, we have been using thinking maps and our close reading companion to write about and brainstorm key details and ideas from texts we have read. We also have been working on opinion writing every morning. We continuously work on text structure, punctuation, and grammar. In math, we have been working with addition through number bonds and math stories. Number bonds help us to see a simple math equation and break up the total into parts using a visual. We have been working up to totals of 9 but have introduced higher numbers as well. Sometimes we work with problems with a mystery number, where one of the addend values is unknown, and sometimes we just solve to find the total. Our PBIS (Postive Behavior Intervention Strategies) focus for the past 3 weeks have been routines and procedures and how to deal with frustration. This week was our first week of homework. Every Friday, we will have a spelling test on the words given in the homework packet, an addition quiz for our math race, and a weekly unit test for language arts. We have been focusing on the book Pete The Cat Rocking in My School Shoes and he has been getting us excited for school! For more Pete The Cat fun at home, visit the website at http://www.petethecatbooks.com/. Thank you for all of the parent support in room 5 and supply donations! I could not do it without you! Mrs. Patel
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