Week of January 14th

Important Dates:

Tuesday, January 15th - Report cards

Wednesday, January 16th Globetrotter passports

Monday, January 21st- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Tuesday, January 22nd- Field trip to teaching museum

Graded papers go home

Things to do:

Please ensure your children are working on iRead this week at home for homework. They log in through launchpad and click on HMH to get to iRead. Students should be familiar with this. Students should complete 2 topics per week minimum.

**If you're having trouble accessing iRead at home, please feel free to increase reading time to 20 minutes and/or practice spelling.

What We're Learning:

Reading

Week's Theme: Imagination and creativeness lead to discoveries the can change the world.

Literacy Skill Focus Standard:

RI 2.3 Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.

RI 2.5 Know and use various text features to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.

Essential Question: What qualities do inventors need?

How do scientific ideas and images in a text contribute to and clarify a text?

Comprehension Skill: synthesizing

Comprehension Strategy: integrate features and running text

ELA:

Mentor Sentence: This week, we will be focusing on ending puncuation using our text, Three Cheers for Tacky

Phonics:

We will studing y as long e. For example; happy, baby, and sleepy

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Math 2.1

We are continuing to work with addition this week as we look at adding up to four 2-digit problems. We can look at this as two sets of problems that we add together at the end! We will also look at working with 3 digit addition with and without regrouping by recapping the traditional method, base ten block method, picture drawing method, expanded form, and number line adding.

Math 2.2

Arrays, arrays, arrays! We begin our exploration of arrays by looking at rows and columns some more. We will use these to create repeated addition sentences that we will use to create multiplication sentences! Please start practicing your multiplication facts at home as well as repeated addition skip counting.

Math 3.1

We are going to finalize our unit 3 review. We will be testing towards the end of the week.

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Science/SS

We are loving the powerful discussions we've been having with our civil rights discussions. We' will look in depth at the work and injustice Martin Luther King Jr. faced and worked hard to eradicate.