What did we learn this week?

📚 Reading and Writing

This week during our reading and writing Amplify lesson, we introduced the students to the idea of a personal narrative. Students also engaged in writing a paragraph, organizing the parts of a paragraph, and creating a six-word memory. Additionally, our students loved setting up their personal writers' notebooks with things they love. Thank you for sending in those materials!

Attached is a parent letter from our Amplify Curriculum. It goes over the major points of this Personal Narratives Unit and conversation starters to use at home. CLICK HERE

✍️ Grammar

For grammar this week, we set up morning work procedures and reviewed articles. Students also got time to get to know their teacher, school, and classmates with various activities.

🧮 Math

In Math this week, we started with getting our minds right to learn math. We talked about how to have a growth mindset when it comes to learning math. Towards the end of the week, students learned to interpret a multiplication equation as a comparison and reviewed the basics of base ten multiplication and place value. 

Attached is a parent letter from our Bluebonnet Curriculum. It goes over the key concepts covered in this unit as well as additional ways to help support your student at home. CLICK HERE

🧪 Science 

This week in science we reviewed how to stay safe during science, organized our thinking about tools to use for experiments, and set up our notebooks! Students were engaged in beginning of the year science STEM activities and also learned about inventors!

🌍 Social Studies

In Social Studies this week, we reviewed how to read a map. We looked at different Texas maps and talked about how you can learn a variety of things from different kinds of maps.