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January 19th, 2024

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Dear families,

We hope you’ve had a restful break surrounded by your family members and are ready to start this new year STRONG! We are looking forward to begin this year with lots of deep learning and meaningful activities.

Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks

English Literacy

Learning Goal

Comparing and contrasting characters across books.

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Readers will learn that as they come to an end of their stories and the characters resolve their problems, characters, and readers, too, learn lessons. They will also be learning how the parts of the story go together, noticing what particular parts connect. And finally, they will compare and contrast characters' actions and behavior from books they have read.

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

Use these tools to practice: Story Elements Chart Character Trait Evidence Match the Story Elements Methods of Problem Solving. Prompts to Support Readers Thinking

Spanish Literacy

Learning Goal

Publicación de escritura.

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Los escritores trabajarán en la publicación de su discurso de opinión y darán retroalimentación a sus compañeros utilizando la lista de cotejo.

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

En casa los escirores harán su última edición y publicarán su discurso de opinión. Lista de cotejo

Mathematics

Learning Goal

What mathematicians are doing at school...

Mathematicians will share their work with multi-step measurement problems in a math forum. The students will work with a partner on measuring story problems that require more than one step and one operation to solve.

What mathematicians could be doing at home...

Home Connections of the week:

HC 69- Grasshopper Math.pdf, https://drive.google.com/file/d/14BTLOJT1uJZPp8c4aXJKTOB9I_SH2dw-/view?usp=sharing

HC 70- Grasshopper Math.pdf.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eEUyQaAkjN4igOunx5CCAHPqrTPSqjOB/view?usp=sharing

Science or Social Studies

Learning Goal

What tigers are doing at school...

Young scientists use their observation skills to identify animals' adaptations.

What tigers could be doing at home...

Students together with their family will be increasing their Global Awareness by reflecting on how the products they purchase or use can have an effect on habitats around the world.

Social Emotional Learning Program

Learning Goal

We will learn to identify characteristics that we prefer friends to have and help us be good friends to others, and to include others that we might not know a lot about.