Week of Nov. 27
- Mrs. Barnes
- Nov 27, 2017
- 4 min read

Important Dates: Nov. 28th Picture Retake Day Nov. 29th Let’s Speak English! Culture Class Dec. 11th – 15th Book Fair Dec. 14th Scholastic Book Fair Family Fun Night Chorus Performance 6:00 p.m. Steel Drum Performance 6:30 p.m.
Things to Do:
-Please be sure to write your child's name in their coats, jackets, hats, and gloves! We are finding many and not sure who they belong to!
-Please check your email for information regarding our winter class parties. We are in need of volunteers, but are only allowed a limited amount. Reach out to your classroom's room parent if you are interested!
What We're Learning:
Reading:
We are excited to dive into a new genre or literature: fables! We recognized a few old favorites such as The Tortise and the Hare, but are finding many that we have not ever heard before! It is important to remember:
Many famous fables were written as part of a collection by a man named Aesop
Many fables involve talking animals
Many fables are short stories with a problem
A fable will teach us a moral, or a lesson to help better our character
Writing/Grammar:
In grammar, we will look at prefixes. This can be a particularly tricky skill to identify, so we will dive in with meaningful context. We will integrate this skill into our vocabulary to help us learn how prefixes can ultimately change the entire meaning of our words!
In writing we will shift our focus to writing our very own fable! We will break the writing process down and really focus on brainstorming and mapping out our stories. We will look at using writing prompts to get us started, or will develop our own based on the fables we have already read! We are so excited to get back to some creative writing this week!
Spelling will focus on reviewing the long vs short o.
We've identified that we have
-short o words
-short o words ending in ck (the c needs to protect the short o!)
-long o words due to the sneaky ending e
-long o words with a double vowel, in this case oa
-a few words that simply do not follow the pattern
Math 2.1:
We are nearing the end of our large unit 2! This is a foundational unit, so we took the necessary time to help become more solid in our addition and subtraction abilities!
This week is all about application with a variety of word problems, particularly those involving money! We will work with part-part-whole models to help us determine if we are missing our total or a part. Please be sure to practice counting coins at home!
This is one of the greatest skills to practice at home!
When you're at the drive through or register, have your kiddo count the change you receive from the cashier!
Work towards setting goals, you have $22 in your bank, let's set a goal to $50! How much more money do you need?
Go on a coin hunt around your house! Check the couch cushions, under rugs, in your mom's purse... what coins did you find? How much did you find?
Be sure to use launchpad.fultonschools.org to login to brainpop jr for some great videos to help practice!
Also, be sure to check out ABCYA for money based games to practice!
Math 2.2:
We will continue to work on using equal groups and skip counting as the foundation for multiplication. We will use these tools to help expand on even vs odd. Do our thoughts change if we take a number we know to be odd (ex 9) and sort them equal groups? Is the number still odd? How do you know? We will use this to preface division!
We will also work with generating various types of graphs for our review of 2nd grade content. We will create our own and analyze others focusing on comparison questions to solve such as how many more students have brown and blue eyes combined than green and hazel?
(5+3) > (2+1)

Math 3.1:
Please continue to practice facts through xtra math, abcya, flashcards, and more! We need to be fluent and know them by memory now.
We will be using our facts with some area and perimeter practice this week! Our goal is to focus on real world application by using measurements to help determine solutions to problems. We will find the area and perimeter of items in our classrooms to help determine furniture rearrangements! We will also use unit cubes to help us determine area and perimeter of objects that are irregular in shape or those that are not squares and rectangles.
Social Studies
We had a blast hunting for artifacts left behind in our garden! We inferred that they came from Native American tribes and did some research to find that Georgia was home to both the Creek and Cherokee tribes when Oglethorpe came to settle. Students will be conducting independent research this week using blendspaces to compare their lives to those of the original settlers of Georgia. Students will work to create an original artifact to set in our very own classroom museum!
Check out some of the great resources pulled together to learn more with your little researchers!
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