Reading:

This week we have been working on the following:

• Comprehension Checks: students are learning how to stop as they read and make time to reflect on what they are reading. We learned two strategies to check our understanding of what we read:

1. Envision (mental image)

2. Ask a Question (I wonder...)

• We have read Chapters 1-4 in the novel Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner

• Students used Post-it notes to envision/ask questions from the novel

Next week we will:

• continue reading Stone Fox and work on the strategy of "Prediction" to check our comprehension

• bring home our first guided reading book to practice reading at home and complete our first reading homework assignment (A letter will be sent home on Tuesday, Sept. 21st explaining the weekly reading homework)

Math:

This week we have been working on the following:

• Place Value : Decomposing Numbers in all the forms: Standard (823,761), Expanded Form (800,000 + 20,000 + 3,000 + 700 + 60 + 1 , and Word Form (eight hundred twenty-three thousand, seven hundred sixty-one.

• We finished taking our Diagnostic test in Education Galaxy.

Next, week's focus:

• Comparing and Ordering Numbers Using Number Lines ( <, = >)

• Setting math goals from our Education Galaxy data.

• Reviewing all the Forms of a number: (standard, expanded, & word)

Science:

Grammar:

This week's focus

• Verbs- I can use state of being verbs to "tell it like it is." Verbs such as are, was, ere, be, been and am.

Writing:

This week's focus

• Taking a "small moment" and developing a personal narrative with an introduction, events with elaboration, and a conclusion.

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