Week of February 11

Important Dates:

Wednesday, February 13th Through My Eyes Reception – 8am in Cafeteria

Wednesday, February 13th Parent Coffee – Open Agenda – 9am in Room 131

Thursday, February 14th - Valentine STEAM boxes due

Friday, February 15th, 18th, 19th - No School for Students

Wednesday, February 20th -Globetrotter Passport Check in Room 131

Friday, February 22 - Living Museum @ 1:00

Things to Do:

• Begin working on your props and costumes at home for our living museum on Fri 2/22

• Students will be working on research and speeches in class, but will be asked to take them home to complete over the long weekend. Please make sure to review these with your learners as we have a quick turn around with the two short weeks!

What We're Learning:

Reading

Week's Theme:

What can we learn from a favorite author: David Shannon?

Main text: How Georgie Radbourn Saved Baseball

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 in a story respond to major events and challenges.

Essential Question:

What message did David Shannon want his readers to get from the story?

How do characters respond to challenges?

Vocabulary Words:

Declared: to make known officially

Colossal: very large or great

Politicians: someone active in government

Confiscated: to take something away as punishment

Forbidden: not allowed

Sympathetic: feeling concerned for someone who is in a bad situation

English Language Arts

Mentor Sentence: This week, using our mentor sentence book Roses are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink, we will continue our focus on types of nouns with a deeper look at common vs proper nouns. This is a skill we must have mastered as we work to edit and revise our living museum speeches. We will also look at possessive nouns and commas as common marks in our mentor texts.

Phonics: Our phonics pattern for the week has us looking at the tricky ew, ui, or ue sounds. Notice how this poster has us studying mostly as we all know the English language always has an exception to every rule.

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Math

Math 2.1

This week we are continuing to explore the depth of subtraction within 1,000 with word problems and some money application. Continue to ask your children about the strategies.

This week we will also look at balancing equations. We will have some fun pulling out a balance scale and some conversation hearts.

Math 2.2

This week we will begin our first third grade unit, which will allow us to expand our knowledge of three digit numbers with a review of place value and addition and subtraction. We will expand this by looking deeper at word problems and include multi step equations.

Math 3.1

This week we will take a deeper look at fractions. We will use a lot of hands on manipulatives to strengthen our understanding and expand to comparing fractions, whole fractions, and even equivalent fractions! This week we will really look at simplifying our fractions to help us determine equivalent fractions. We will look at this with fraction bars and will stick with our knowledge of multiplication and division to help us determine if they are equivalent or not.

Science/SS

We are well on our way with our living museum research books. We are working hard to gather information and begin forming our speeches. All rough drafts will need to be completed before returning from the break, so please check in with your learners and see where they're at with their research and speech writing. We appreciate all your help with this project. Please don't hesitate to keep in touch with any concerns or questions you may have.