•Homework is due on
Friday. Please sign your child’s reading log each week. Keep your reading log
and math packet in your yellow folder.
• Thank you for all of
you who were able to sign up for volunteer opportunities this year. I will be
setting up a schedule in October and we will be starting at some point in late
October early November once our routines and procedures are in place.
Language Arts: Our work on opinion writing continues this week. We will
be reading an opinion piece titled Are Trampolines Too Dangerous? Students will
use the article to identify reasons for each side of this question. Then they
will pick write their opinion. We will complete an opinion pillar and then
write the opinion piece. We will continue to work on learning our word work,
work on writing and read to self routines. Students will work on identifying
nonfiction text features as we read books about frogs and toads.
Mathematics: We will continue to work on adding three digit numbers
with regrouping in the ones. We will begin to learn how to regroup in the tens
place. Then by the end of the week we will be regrouping ones and tens.
Students will be working on identifying the mistake and fixing it. We will also
look at finding the missing digit in a completed addition problem.
Science:
We will be learning about frogs and their habitat. On Friday we had a wonderful
visit from the Boston Museum of Science. The children learned what animals need
to survive. We identified animals’ habitat, shelter and what it eats based on
clues.. We saw a hedgehog, box turtle, and frog. The children got to see a Bull
Frog Skeleton. This week we will discuss what we saw from our field trip. We
are doing a jigsaw activity where students become an expert on one part of the
life cycle and then they will share with others what they learned.
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Social Studies: We wrote our class constitution. They did a great job
discussing what was important to them in how we will treat each other and
behave in class. Here is our constitution:
•Be respectful-Treat
others the way you want to be treated
•Show good character.
•Be a good citizen-
follow the classroom rules
•Show perseverance
•Support and include
others
•Treat class books and
materials with care
•Be positive and
peaceful with everyone
• Please sign and
return your child’s reflection for Monday.
Writing Journal
This afternoon your child will be bringing home his/her
writing journal. The purpose of this is for you to see your child’s independent
writing. Please be supportive and patient in your child’s growth as a writer.
It is not expected that all the words be spelled correctly. I would rather your
child not be limited in his/her writing by only writing what can be correctly
spelled. You can encourage them
and discuss details that could be added.
I hope that having parents see their work will help the children want to
include more details.
However, keep in mind that the students only have about 20
minutes to write. If your child did not finish his/ her writing you are
encouraged to have him/her finish.
If you would like you can write a quick comment back to you
child in the journal.
Please return the journals on Tuesday each week. The
students will be using the journal for other writing prompts during the week in
addition to their weekend writing.
I hope that you enjoy reading your child’s journal each
week.
