Week of November 4

Important Dates:

Red Ribbon Week:

Monday-wear red

Tuesday- No School

Wednesday-wear neon- Your future is too bright for drugs!

Thursday- Rock and Roll Day-wear crazy stuff- Crazy hair, crazy shirt, etc.

Friday-Red, White, Blue day!

Monday, November 4-Classroom Spelling Bee

Tuesday, November 5- No School for students

Wednesday, November 6- Picture Retakes

Bilingual Parent Liaison Speaker Series-Spanish speaker on student wellness @ Dolvin

Friday, November 8

All Pro Dads in Cafe @ 7am

Veterans Day Celebration

Kindergarten Field Trip

What We're Learning

Reading:

Week Theme: What can readers learn from fairy tales?

Literacy Skills Focus Standards:

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

RL2.6- Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.

Essential Questions:

What are the elements of a fairy tale?

How can the point of view change based on who tells story?Comprehension Skill: Summarize

Comprehension Strategy: Summarize what is the most essential

Language Arts:

Mentor Sentence: This week, we will be working on reviewing contractions and how to form them. We will be reading the popular book How to Give a Mouse a Cookie.

Phonics: This week, we will be working on plural noun spelling patterns.

Math:

2.1

We will work on subtraction and start learning about how to regroup.We know that addition and subtraction are related, so we will look at how we can apply those same strategies we've learned in addition to help us solve subtraction!

Just like in addition, we will expose our learners to all of these different strategies in hopes they find one that makes sense for their learning style. We will continue to develop our thinking of these numbers and what regrouping means before trying the often abstract traditional method. That is the goal as it is often most efficient for us, however, we want to focus on building strong, number sense in our young mathematicians!

2.2

We will start a new unit this week. We will be learning how to create different arrays. Students will learn how to illustrate an array and identify the repeated addition problem it represents. Students will be able to apply their understanding of arrays to form equal groups to to further their understanding of multiplication concepts.

3.1

Students will be reviewing the materials taught in unit 2 and will be preparing for the unit test.

Social Studies

We will start our unit on the Georgia Regions. Students will learn the following about each region: land forms, wildlife, climate, plants/crops, and attractions.