Friday, March 13, 2015

Happily Ever After!

Classroom News
Reading:  We wrapped up our fairy tale unit this past week.  It was a fun unit and students really enjoyed comparing and contrasting characters from a fractured fairy tale to the original version.  We were able to read so many great fairy tales!  We did a fun craft on The Three Little Pigs, which happens to be a crowd favorite!  We took our assessment on Friday.  Student’s put forth their best effort comparing and contrasting Goldilocks from the original version with Goldilocks from the fractured fairy tale.
Math: We began Chapter 10 this week!  We began to learn about picture graphs and how a picture graph represents data and gives us information.  We also learned how to make a picture graph and how we can use it to answer a question.
Writing: Students continued to write opinions about their collections this past week.  They learned that sometimes people will disagree with their opinions and that is okay.  We also learned it is important to give reasons to support our opinion.  This makes our opinions stronger!


What We’re Learning Next Week:
Reading: Next week we will be beginning a brand new unit.  We will be learning about point of view.  In a story sometimes the author tells the story and sometimes the character tells the story.  We will be reading a wide variety of texts and exploring who is telling the story in each text and using textual evidence to decipher how we know!  We will be studying first person point of view and third person point of view.

Math: We are going to be continuing along in Chapter 10.  Next week we will learn how to read bar graphs to find the number that a bar shows, we will make a bar graph to learn how it helps us to compare information, we will read tally charts, make tally charts, and practice problem solving to learn how graphs can help us to solve problems by representing data!  It will be a busy week in math!

Writing: We are going to continue writing opinion pieces.  We will be learning how to bolster our arguments and opinions.  We will be introduced to quotation marks and learn how we can use them in our writing.  We will also learn how to use a variety of punctuation marks and why they are important to include in our writing.  We will work on being persuasive and writing persuasive reviews!

Phonemic Awareness:
Students will be learning about the digraph ou.

Example: mouth and found

Please practice at home using spellingcity.com

Important Information
Fluency Poems!
Check your child’s fluency folder for their new fluency poem!
Fluency poems are DUE March 20!  Be sure to practice each week and make sure your child brings home their new poem!

Important Dates:

3/27: Report Cards Go Home!




Friday, March 6, 2015

Cinderrrrrella!

Classroom News
Reading: This week students compared and contrasted characters from the beloved fairy tale Cinderella.  We watched the original version and talked about the evil characters and the good characters.  We then noticed that this fairy tale also used the number 3 because there are three evil characters!  We then read the story Bigfoot Cinderrrrella.  This was a funny fractured fairy tale about a bigfoot girl named Rrrrella who charms prince charming by knocking him into the water!  We noticed many similarities between the fractured characters and the original fairy tale characters.  We also began working on Wanted posters!  We can’t wait for you to see them during our Night At the Museum in April! J
Math: We are finishing up Chapter 9.  We are really getting the hang of telling time.  We are practicing all day long and seem to really understand the concept!  Next week we will be taking our Chapter 9 test.  Look out for the practice test to go home.  We will have our test on Tuesday.
Writing: We began learning about how to write reviews!  Students loved judging their toys and deciding which one is the best and giving reasons for why it is the best.  This will be a fun change of pace for students.


What We’re Learning Next Week:
Reading: Next week we will be continuing to read more fairy tale stories.  We will be having our assessment on Friday.  We will be reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears both a fractured and original version.  Classes are going to be reading Jack and the Beanstalk and Sleeping Beauty.  We are also going to be doing crafts focusing on beginning, middle, end, and problem and solution.

Math: We are going to be having our Chapter test on Tuesday.  We will be beginning Chapter 10 next week.  We will be learning al about how to represent data using different types of graphs and how graphs and charts can help you to organize and interpret data.  We will learn how to read picture graphs next week, and learn to make our own picture graph.

Writing: We are going to be continuing to write our opinion pieces using our collections.  WE will learn how to explain judgments in convincing ways.  We will learn that often times opinion writers will expect disagreement and that you need to be able to have a counterargument ready.  We will also learn how to bolster arguments.

Phonemic Awareness:
Students will be learning about the digraph ow and ou.

Example: plow and round

Please practice at home using spellingcity.com

Important Information
Fluency Poems!
Check your child’s fluency folder for their new fluency poem!
Fluency poems are DUE March 13!  Be sure to practice each week!

Important Dates:

3/11: SIP Day Half Day Student Attendance