Hello families!
I hope you enjoyed your weekend. We finally have a five day
school week ahead of us! Reading groups will begin this week.
Each morning, I will meet with students in their leveled groups. We
will work on foundational skills in reading, skills in writing, and begin
reading books. I will not begin sending little books home with students
until next Monday. Optional homework
will also begin next week.
This week’s skills….
In Language Arts we will:
-visualize a fiction story (using our imagination and prior
knowledge to picture what happens in the story/what the characters may look
like). Today we read Little Green
Monster (without looking at the illustrations) as I read, students used the
author’s descriptions to draw the monster.
They are bringing their Little Green Monster home today. After we read the story, we read it again
with the illustrations – lots of giggles!
-read: Creepy Carrots and Cloudy With a Chance of
Meatballs – we will stop at various points in the story to record our
visualizations!
-reading poems for fluency (This is the way we wash our face
& The Bumblebee – identify rhyming words).
-continue practicing literacy center rotations
In Writing we will;
-use checklists to monitor our own writing (Did I include a picture?
Did I try to write the sounds that I heard? Did I use my
resources?)
-continue working on narrative stories
-team up with a third grade class to celebrate our writing growth
thus far!
In Science we will:
-continue exploring different kinds of magnets
-discover which magnet is the strongest
-learn about magnetic poles
-ask questions
-seek answers to our questions
We have quite a few little scientists
in our class!
In Math we will:
-continue writing numerals accurately
-practice ordering numbers
-practice subitizing different quantities (looking at a side of a
die and knowing immediately how many it is or finding groups of numbers within
a quantity and counting on)
-match a numeral to a quantity
-engage in math center rotations
-practice independent and accountable math “talk”
Important Info:
***Book Fair***
The Scholastic Monster Book Fair is coming to Whittier! The
Book Fair is held in the Media Center. Scholastic offers quality books
and classroom favorites at a great price! Come check out what awesome
books, games, and contests the Book Fair has to offer. The book fair will
be held October 2nd – October 7th.
***Library***
We have a library book exchange tomorrow – 9/29. Please send your student to school with their
library book. It goes in the pink bin by
the door.
***HERO SLIPS***
We are counting our Hero Slips this Friday. Students earn Hero Slips for going above and
beyond expectations, being kind, polite, and ready to learn! Talk with your student about what they would
like to purchase….
10 = Prize Box
12 = Show and Tell
20 = Slippers in the classroom
25 = Pick your own seat for the day
30 = Special chair for the day (teacher chair)
35 = Lunch with the teacher
40 = Hat day
Most students will pick prize box, but if they have their eye on
another prize, encourage them to save!
Have great week!
Ms. Grimes
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