Dear Parents!
This was such a busy week! We built catapults, wrote like scientists in our Science Lab Report, had our progress monitoring for our BAS reading, and much more!
Thank you to everyone who contributed to our science fund. It is greatly appreciated by the students!
Curriculum this week:
Science: We will study the sun patterns (we weren't able to complete this because no sun or too cold...so we are extending it to the upcoming week). We will also study phases of the moon by making Oreo cookies look like the phases of the moon.
English: We are going to review parts of speech and reinforce punctuation and capitalization. I am noticing when I read what the students write in their writing journals, that they aren't even taking the time to capitalize the beginning of the sentence and have forgotten?? that you capitalize a proper noun. I also noticed when I was reading their science lab reports that they weren't ending their questions with the proper punctuation. So...we are going to work on this in the upcoming week.
The skill this week is /y/ as a vowel. The skill words are: baby, candy, bunny, mommy, fly, try, cry, reply, gym, lymph, gypsum, yellow, young, yell, yet, you, funny, mommy
The red words are: excellent, Friday, any, been, found, Thursday
Writing: The students are going to rework their catapult to make it bigger, stronger, faster and we will then measure how far our marshmallow will travel when launched from our catapult. We will also write a science lab report when we make a bridge/house and have a class competition to see how strong it is (how many books it will hold). The kids always LOVE this...I can't wait!
Reading: The students have improved so much in their BAS reading levels. I am going to update levels RAZ kids to reflect their new levels. Remember in RAZ kids that their levels are lower than the BAS levels. Don't be surprised if your child goes up several levels. They really rocked their BAS progress monitoring. Yahoo!!
Math: We took a quiz on Thursday. The results will be posted when everyone finishes the quiz. I still have a few absent that need to complete this. I will send these home in student folders on Thursday. We will have a quiz over fractions on Friday. This is for both 3.2 and 2.2, but at different depth and level. I will send you lessons using Remind, so please look for these so your child can be successful and prepared for the unit assessment the following week.
Have a wonderful weekend,
Laura
This was such a busy week! We built catapults, wrote like scientists in our Science Lab Report, had our progress monitoring for our BAS reading, and much more!
Thank you to everyone who contributed to our science fund. It is greatly appreciated by the students!
Curriculum this week:
Science: We will study the sun patterns (we weren't able to complete this because no sun or too cold...so we are extending it to the upcoming week). We will also study phases of the moon by making Oreo cookies look like the phases of the moon.
English: We are going to review parts of speech and reinforce punctuation and capitalization. I am noticing when I read what the students write in their writing journals, that they aren't even taking the time to capitalize the beginning of the sentence and have forgotten?? that you capitalize a proper noun. I also noticed when I was reading their science lab reports that they weren't ending their questions with the proper punctuation. So...we are going to work on this in the upcoming week.
The skill this week is /y/ as a vowel. The skill words are: baby, candy, bunny, mommy, fly, try, cry, reply, gym, lymph, gypsum, yellow, young, yell, yet, you, funny, mommy
The red words are: excellent, Friday, any, been, found, Thursday
Writing: The students are going to rework their catapult to make it bigger, stronger, faster and we will then measure how far our marshmallow will travel when launched from our catapult. We will also write a science lab report when we make a bridge/house and have a class competition to see how strong it is (how many books it will hold). The kids always LOVE this...I can't wait!
Reading: The students have improved so much in their BAS reading levels. I am going to update levels RAZ kids to reflect their new levels. Remember in RAZ kids that their levels are lower than the BAS levels. Don't be surprised if your child goes up several levels. They really rocked their BAS progress monitoring. Yahoo!!
Math: We took a quiz on Thursday. The results will be posted when everyone finishes the quiz. I still have a few absent that need to complete this. I will send these home in student folders on Thursday. We will have a quiz over fractions on Friday. This is for both 3.2 and 2.2, but at different depth and level. I will send you lessons using Remind, so please look for these so your child can be successful and prepared for the unit assessment the following week.
Have a wonderful weekend,
Laura