💡What We're Learning This Week💡

🔤Phonics: We will be working on multi-syllabic words with ir, er, and ur sounds.

📖Reading: We have started our next module in Reading. We are learning about the life cycle of a plant. Students are learning about the different parts of a plant and what the job of each part is and how it helps the plant. We are working on answering questions about what we have read and are using the books and articles we are reading to find the answers before we answer.

🔢Math: We are working on different strategies for addition and subtracting with two 3 digit numbers. We are using our knowledge of place value to help us add and subtract, knowing when we need to decompose or compose a ten or hundred.

🌍Leader in me🌍

We are learning about about Habit 4 Think Win Win. Habit 4: Think Win-Win means believing everyone can win and looking for solutions where both (or all) people get something good, not just one person winning while another loses; it's about sharing, teamwork, and being happy for others' success, like finding a way for everyone to play a game without someone getting left out, finding that "there's enough good stuff for everyone".

🔤Fundations🔤

📚EL Reading and Writing✍️

In Unit 1, students are learning about the guiding questions "How do plants grow and survive?". Students learn about the stages a plant goes through in its life cycle. Students learn about each stage: seed, plant, flower, and fruit.

In Unit 2, students use the background knowledge they have developed about plants to learn more about pollinators and the role they have in pollination. We will read and research to learn about how pollinators help plants grow and survive. They will learn about ways that plants get pollinated with a focus on animal pollinators. We will learn about bees as a pollinator. Students will do research about the topic and will write a pollinator booklet to show what they have learned.

In Unit 3, students apply their learning about plants and pollinators in their end of module activity. They will choose a pollinator to research. They will create both a visual presentation and notecards to present their learning to students in another class.

Throughout the units, students participate in collaborative conversations with their peers to process and extend their understandings of the relationships between plants and pollinators.

Important Reminders🗣️

The temperatures in our classrooms are hard to regulate, your child may want to bring a jacket or sweatshirt to keep in their cubby. You may want to put their name on the tag in case they misplace it.

Remember to either send your child in tennis shoes or to pack tennis shoes when it is your classes PE day!

Royal: Tuesday Rhye: Monday Coomes: Wednesday

What can you do at home each night to help your child?

Math facts:

- Making 10. ( 7 + __ = 10, 4 +__= 10, “When I say 9 you tell me what number is needed to make 10.” Child says “1.”)
- Facts to 10. (3 +__= 9, 5 + __= 7, “When I say 6 you tell me what number is needed to make 8.” Child says “2.”)
- Doubles Facts: 6 + 6, 8 + 8, 4 + 4, etc.

High Frequency Words/Trick Words/Heart words

There are many names for them, but they are all words that don’t follow our usual rules of phonics!

It is VERY IMPORTANT that students know these words by heart and automatically!!

Here is a link to videos that can help your child learn trick words.

https://www.reallygreatreading.com/heart-word-magic

-Helping your child with these at home will greatly improve your child’s reading skills.

When we read with students we are looking at 3 different things:

Accuracy, Fluency, and Comprehension.

When your child is reading at home, you can work on these things too!

For accuracy, if you notice that your child misreads a word, don’t immediately stop them. Instead, wait until they finish the sentence or the page and read the sentence with the error back to them the same way they read it and see if they can find the error and correct it. Remind your child to finger stretch unknown words and use the sounds we are learning in phonics to help them read the words correctly.

For fluency, if you notice that your child’s reading sounds choppy, ask them to reread what they read to make it smoother. Remind your child that their reading should sound like talking. 80% of what a child reads should be easy for them to help them build their fluency. Rereading familiar books is a great way to build fluency. Students may also bring home fluency passages they can read and time themselves to work to build their number of words they can read in 1 minute. At the beginning of the year, students should be able to read 50-60 words per minute.

For comprehension, ask your child questions about what happened in the stories they read. You can also have them retell the story to see if they can tell you the important details from the story. If there is a part they cannot remember, have them go back and reread that part of the story.

Thank you for all your support!

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