Reading:

This week we have been working on the following:

• identify organizational patterns such as cause and effect and problem and solution

• Complete the 2nd Nine Weeks TEKS Check in Reading

• Tracking our Fluency to determine how many WPM we read.

Next week we will:

• continue to identify cause and effect relationships

• identify plot and resolution of winter read-alouds

*Your child will not have a Guided Reading Book or Reading Homework next week.

Math:

This week we have been working on the following:

Division

• We worked on word problems and how to look for what they are asking us to do.

• We used blocks to put a given number into equal groups and saw the connection between division and multiplication.

• We took our 5's multiplication test this week. (or 2's, 3's, or 4's , if we haven't mastered those levels yet.)

• We worked on IXL and Education Galaxy assignments and fact fluency on both SplashLearn and MobyMax.

Next, week's focus:

• Increasing our fluency with our Fun Facts beginning with a review of our 0-5 multiplication facts

• Solve one and two step word problems using different strategies to represent multiplication & and division.

(arrays, strip diagrams, equations)

There will be no homework this week. One of my Christmas gifts. :)

Science:

Grammar:

This week's focus phrase:

No new focus phrase this week. We will use this week to review grammar skills learned thus far.

Writing:

Next week's focus

• Informational Text

• Students will work on a draft of their informational text

• Students will continue to include text features such as Table of Contents, Glossary, Diagrams, Illustration with caption, etc. for their final informational writing.

Spelling:

Students will receive a spelling list next week on Contractions.

On Thursday, students will take the test over their list words since Friday is early release.