A Look at Our Learning

Reader’s Workshop: We continue to work on our first reading unit Building a Reading Life

Now that we have established our reading routines, we will continue to strengthen our comprehension skills by :

• Visualizing/making a mental movie

• Asking questions

• Predicting

• Summarizing

• Retelling 

Writer’s Workshop – We continue to work on our first unit called Launching and Crafting a True Story

We have a huge bank of ideas to write about.  We are now taking these ideas and writing journal entries.  As students write journal entries they are learning to become storytellers on paper by:

• Using a storyteller’s voice and not a reporter’s voice

• Adding interesting leads

• Developing the heart of the story

• Adding dialogue and elaboration

Math- Investigations Unit 2 Travel Stories & Collections:  In this unit, students learned to:

• Fluently add within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.

• Solve and model multi-step word problems within 1000 with add to, take from, or compare structures by creating a coherent representation of the problem and then solve 

• Add multiples of 10 to a 3-digit number

• Subtract multiples of 10 from a 2 or 3-digit number

Science/Social Studies:

We have wrapped our first social studies unit on Movement & Migration.  We will be starting our first science unit, Weather & Climate.  In this unit we will learn:

• What is weather?

• What is climate?

• The difference between weather & climate

• The water cycle

• Types of clouds

Good questions to ask your child:

• How do you play Go Collecting?

• The title of their published book

A Look Ahead

• Reading Workshop – Reading to Learn: Grasping Main Idea and Text Structures

• Writer’s Workshop – Changing the World: Persuasive Speeches, Petitions, and Editorials

• Mathematics – Travel Stories and Collections, Addition and Subtraction