Happy New Year, and Welcome Back to a Brand New Semester!
We hope you had a wonderful and restful holiday filled with love, friends, and family! We are ready to begin an exciting new year of learning and fun!
We hope you had a wonderful and restful holiday filled with love, friends, and family! We are ready to begin an exciting new year of learning and fun!
Notes for the week...** Don't forget, we need students to bring in one or two 2-liter soda bottles for our next science unit! We will be cutting them apart and joining bottles together to create "eco-column" models of a terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem, so they all need to be the same size and shape.
This week in class...
Language Arts
In Language Arts this week, we'll be practicing our reading fluency and expression by choosing a picture book to read to a kindergartner and 1st grader. We'll be spending this week practicing independently, with the teacher, and with partners, so that we set a good example to our K and Grade 1 friends, as well as keep them interested in the stories we share with them!
In addition, we will begin using "mentor sentences" from novels we have read to enhance our language skills in identifying parts of speech, revising and editing to make a sentence sound better, and imitating complex sentence structures in our writing. We will also begin practicing our language skills as scientists as we begin the process of forming questions, hypotheses, and research for our science projects.
I am excited to announce that our "Recess Rules" PSAs have been published, and are ready to be shared with our fellow elementary students as we return to the routines of school! Click on the links below to see our finished work!
Recess PSA Episode 1
Recess PSA Episode 2
Recess PSA Episode 3
Recess PSA Episode 4
Recess PSA Episode 5
Recess PSA Episode 6
Math
In addition, we will begin using "mentor sentences" from novels we have read to enhance our language skills in identifying parts of speech, revising and editing to make a sentence sound better, and imitating complex sentence structures in our writing. We will also begin practicing our language skills as scientists as we begin the process of forming questions, hypotheses, and research for our science projects.
I am excited to announce that our "Recess Rules" PSAs have been published, and are ready to be shared with our fellow elementary students as we return to the routines of school! Click on the links below to see our finished work!
Recess PSA Episode 1
Recess PSA Episode 2
Recess PSA Episode 3
Recess PSA Episode 4
Recess PSA Episode 5
Recess PSA Episode 6
This week in Math class we will be starting into our infamous fractions unit. We have some yummy review activities planned and will be talking about equivalent fractions and adding and subtracting fractions this week.
Homework:
Wednesday:One Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL L.3
Thursday:One Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL L.2
Science
Thursday:One Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL L.2
This week we will begin a new unit in Science about Ecosystems. We'll be
developing our own definition of an ecosystem and designing an experiment
to determine the most important factors for a plant's survival.
developing our own definition of an ecosystem and designing an experiment
to determine the most important factors for a plant's survival.
Thank you for all of your support, parents! Please feel free to email us if you have
any questions.
any questions.
Ms. Amy and Mr. Andrew
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