This week is... LiteRacY WeeK !
All week, we will be celebrating literacy.
Some highlights are as follows:
Monday: Literacy Week kick-off video by Dr. Vitti
Tuesday: Dudes Do Read Day! Thank you dads for volunteering to read to our classes!
Wednesday: Wear RED to show we are "well read".
Thursday: Bring a flashlight or small camping lantern for flashlight reading time.
Friday: Johnny Appleseed Day... We will read and learn about Johnny Appleseed and have an assembly with a modern day Johnny Appleseed.
Resources this week:
Cox:
Monday: PE
Tuesday: Computer
Wednesday: Art
Friday: Music
Kluge:
Monday: Music
Tuesday: PE
Wednesday: Computer
Thursday: Art
Friday: Media
ELA: I hope everyone received the letters students brought home this week. They worked very hard looking at their progress, determining strengths and challenges, and setting goals for reading this year! I am so proud of my readers!
This week in reading, we will be integrating social studies with our study of physical environments around the world. We are working with all types of maps and have located all of the countries our books have taken us to so far this year. The climate, landforms, and water features of a place are important parts of the physical environment. Click on the map below to look at climates around the word. Choose the legend tab on the right side to understand what climate the different colors represent.
Click on the map below to see several maps of the United States with map keys.
There is a link to the right under social studies that has
many interactive geography activities too!
This will develop our schema for learning about different librarians around the world in the third unit of module 1. We will read a narrative informational text, Waiting for the Biblioburro. Click on the book cover to listen to the book!
Reading home learning: Complete RAH log - Look at maps or globes around the house or maps in books and look for a compass rose, a map key, and physical features - After reading Waiting for the Biblioburro at school, retell the story to someone at home.
In writing this week, we will combine simple sentences to create a compound or complex sentence, using conjunctions. We will also write a new paragraph about someone who we consider a hero in our lives... someone we admire and who sets a good example.
This week, we started logging our Achieve 3000 lessons. If students complete a lesson at home, they are encourage to jot down the title and their "first try" score in their planner or a sticky note so they can transfer the information to their log.
MATH: This week in math we will solve word problems involving time
intervals within 1 hour by adding and subtracting on the number line. The students will measure weight and liquid
volume in metric units. We will build
and decompose a kilogram to reason about the size and weight of 1 kilogram, 100
grams, 10 grams, and 1 gram. We will
work on developing estimation strategies by reasoning about the weight in
kilograms of a series of familiar objects to establish mental benchmark
measures. We will be solving one-step word problems involving metric weights
within 100 and estimate to reason about solutions and decompose a liter to
reason about the size of 1 liter, 100 milliliters, 10 milliliters, and 1
milliliter.
Module 2 Lesson 5
Module 2 Lesson 6
Module 2 Lesson 7
Module 2 Lesson 8
Things to do at home:
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Use a clock to tell time and to solve elapse
time problems
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Practice decomposing or taking apart a number for example; 333 = 300 + 30 +3
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Talk about the different units of measure and
practice solving problems using different units of measure
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Continue practicing multiplication facts 2-5
SCIENCE: This
week in Science we will discuss/learn how scientist use their observations to infer
and make explanations. The students will
recognize that observations and measurements are forms of evidence used by
scientists to make inferences and draw conclusions. We will begin to review for our Chapter 1 test
on Friday.
Weekly Math Video Post: Module 2 Lesson 5:
Module 2 Lesson 6:
Module 2 Lesson 7:
Module 2 Lesson 8:
