Writing - This week we are finishing up our personal narratives. A narrative is a real story about something that happened in a person's past. It includes a "small moment" with a lot of detail. A narrative can be about a vacation somebody took, a trip to the store, or riding a bike for the first time. It is factual and can include dialogue. We are learning about quotation marks, and how to properly use them in our writing.
Homework alert - Students on Tuesday will be coming home with a construction paper pumpkin that they will need to decorate and return to school on Wednesday. We will use the paper pumpkins to write dialogue in school.
Social Studies - We are concluding the first part of our social studies unit on maps and globes. For the past few weeks we have studied the continents and their locations. This week we are also studying the four major oceans. Students are coming home with a map of the world. They will be assessed on their knowledge of the locations of the seven continents and four oceans on Friday! Please help your child look over the study guide coming home on Tuesday! Students will be given a word bank to assist them on the test.
Math - We are continuing with our unit on arrays and even/odd numbers. Three times a week students take a "Mad Minute", and on Friday I take an assessment on how many problems a student can correctly solve within a minute and a half. Last week we focused on addition. This week we will continue with addition before moving on to subtraction. As the year goes along we will decrease the time to one minute. Please help your child study his or her basic facts to become more fluent in solving math facts. This will ultimately make solving word problems much easier for students.
Reading - In reading we will be learning about features of non-fiction texts. This week we are reading about different occupations , and students will come home later in the week with an assignment in which they need to interview a family member, relative, or friend about their job.
