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Janaury 24th, 2025

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Dear Families,

We're thrilled to update you on our current learning focus. Our students are actively solving subtraction story problems, mastering comparisons with unknowns in different positions. In addition, we're fostering crucial conversation skills—identifying behaviors that maintain or disrupt discussions, recognizing on-topic/off-topic responses, and promoting clear, kind, and thoughtful communication. We're also exploring the power of snap words for smoother and more impactful reading experiences. Lastly, our learners are engaged in understanding what makes a leader and identifying leaders in their lives.

Warm regards,

Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks

English Literacy

Learning Goal

Reading: The focus of this week is the skill of monitoring, not only for comprehension but for word decoding. Phonics: Students will take time to study word parts to help them spell all the way across a word.

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Reading: Readers will take ownership of their reading by noticing "CLUNKS" errors and pausing to correct them. Partner work is important here as, students will work together to stop, pause, re-read, and correct. They will keep in mind what they have learned about r-controlled vowels. Phonics: Readers and writers will work together to show what they know about parts of words, they will use what they know about words parts to help them spell all the way across a word.

What readers & writers could be doing at home...

Reading: Be a partner to your child, read one of these books "The Queens Ants Birthday" or "Fall Forward, Spring Back" with them, and use those signs to help them stop and fix their reading. If you notice R-controlled vowel challenges (-ar, -er, -ir, -or, -ur) use this CHART to help. Phonics: Students will Spell and Write as many words they can using the word parts of st, th, tr, sm, dr, sw, ack, ink, ing, ery. Remember to say them out loud and write them in your homework notebook (Reading Response).

Spanish Literacy

Learning Goal

Reforzar sus argumentos con palabras que convencen

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Los escritores de opinión usarán frases o palabras para convencer a otros de que ellos tienen razón, prestando atención a que su opinión y razones sean claras, releyendo cada palabra y revisando que estén bien escritas. Usarán la comparación y contraste para argumentar y hacer de su escritura la mejor.

What readers & writers could be doing at home...

En casa, asegurate de usar frases o palabras que convensan mientras conversas sobre : ¿Cuál es el mejor restaurante? o ¿Cuál es la mejor mascota?

Mathematics

Learning Goal

Count by 5's and 10's to 100 and tell story problems using the number line.

What mathematicians are doing at school...

Students will continue to add and subtract multiples of 5 and 10 using the number line. They will also create story problems using the number line.

What mathematicians could be doing at home...

Home Connection Unit 4 Module 3 Session 5 Sevens, Pennies, Bikes, and Trikes. Due on Wednesday, January 29th

Science or Social Studies

Learning Goal

Students understand the concept of leadership and identify leaders in their lives.

What tigers are doing at school...

Tigers will continue to explore what a leader is? They will recognize leaders in their family, class, school,etc. They will experience voting in their class.

What tigers could be doing at home...

Students can identify who the leaders are in different settings (home, school, etc). They can have a conversation with their family to discuss: What does a leader do? How do we know someone is a leader? Are there different types of leaders?