Week of Sept. 4

Important Dates:

-September 4th: Labor Day >>> No School

-September 5th: New parent coffee (8:30 AM)

-September 6th: ESOL parent meeting (7:45 AM)

Things to Do:

-Please make sure to check your child's folder nightly!

-If you have not done so already, please be sure to download the Seesaw Parent App to see all of the amazing things your kiddos are learning!

What We're Learning:

Reading:

We are continuing to expand our thoughts on beginning, middle, and end and how they might not all be the same chunk of the story. We will look for strategies to help us remember each part through connections (text to self, text to movie, text to text, and even disconnections), predictions, questioning, and things we didn't know before. We will practice a lot during buddy reading to help us check our partners for using these strategies.

Writing/Grammar:

In grammar, we have taken a look at vibrant verbs and have done very well at using a thesaurus to help us enhance our vocabulary! This week we will take a look at amazing adverbs! We will look at editing our writing by adding some of these adverbs into our personal narratives to expand our writing. Along with that, we will be focusing on captivating endings.

Math 2.1:

We are ready to explore word problems this week! We will learn about the CUBES strategy and how to identify key words. Which words mean add? Which words mean subtract? We will work on adding in units of 10 for example, I have 45 pencils. Sam has 20 more. How many pencils does Sam have? We will also look at problems that allow us to apply our skip counting knowledge. For example, Jordan buys 12 packs of candy. If each pack has 10 pieces inside, how many pieces of candy did he get?)

Math 2.2:

We will continue to explore subtraction strategies with numbers up to 1,000. We will work with more challenging problems that push our thinking by regrouping across zeros.

Math 3.1:

This week we are continuing to strengthen our fluency in math facts. We will continue to work with the distributive property to break facts down that we maybe don't know yet. We will also continue to use the inverse operation to help us understand that once we know one fact, in reality we know four!

Social Studies:

We are finalizing our social studies unit on economics and personal finance. We will expand our concepts to cover scarcity and opportunity cost. We will also look at producers and consumers through a fun assembly line activity! We can't wait to share all we've learned about being responsible with our money.