Week of December

Important Dates:

Tuesday, December 4th- Tuesday Papers

Friday December 7th- School Store

What We're Learning-

Reading:

Week's Theme: Characters from the same story can be different depending on who is telling the story.

Literacy Skill Focus Standard:

RL 2.2 Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

RL 2.3 Describe how characters respond to major events and challenges.

RL 2.9 Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story by different authors or from different cultures.

Essential Questions:

*How can we summarize a story to tell the most important details?

*How does the actions a character takes relate to the type of character they are?

*How can two stories be retold in different ways?

Comprehension Skill: Summarize, determine importance

Comprehension Strategy: Summarize based on what a character wants

ELA:

Mentor Sentence: This week, we will be learning compound words using the much loved book, Gingerbread Baby.

Phonics: This week, we will be working on compound words. Students will be working to understand that compound words consist of two complete words that when combined, have a new meaning.

Math

Math 2.1

We will wrapping up our journey through addition, subtraction, and money by beginning to review for our unit test this week! We will be applying and practicing all of our newly gained skills and strategies by completing an in class study guide and playing fun, interactive review games.

We have learned to:

* Cultivate an understanding of how addition and subtraction affect quantities and are related to each other

* Reinforce the multiple meanings for addition (combine, join, and count on) and subtraction (take away, remove, count back, and compare)

*further develop our understanding of the relationships between addition and subtraction

*Recognize how the digits 0-9 are used in our place value system to create numbers and manipulate amounts

* Continue to develop our understanding solving problems with money

Math 2.2

This week, students will work with categorical data by organizing, representing and interpreting data using four categories. As students continue to develop their use of reading and interpreting data, we will incorporate these standards into our math routines and daily practice. It is not merely the making or filling out of the graph, but the connections made from the data represented that builds and strengthens mathematical reasoning.

Math 3.1

This week, students will begin to recognize area as an attribute of two dimensional regions. They will measure the area of a shape by finding the total number of same size square units required to cover the shape without gaps or overlaps. Students will work to understand that rectangular arrays can be decomposed into identical rows or into identical columns. By decomposing rectangles into rectangular arrays of squares, students will connect area to multiplication, and justify using multiplication to determine the area of a rectangle

Science:

This week we will continue to evaluate and communicate information about how weather, plants, animals, and humans cause changes to the environment. We will do this by asking questions to obtain information about major changes to the environment in our community. We will also construct an explanation of the causes and effects of a change to the environment in our community by observing signs of erosion around the school.