Welcome to second quarter! It's so exciting to reflect on the growth of our class from the beginning of the year to now! In just a little over two months our students are thinking about what would make sense when they are stuck on an unfamiliar word, and then they cross-check that with the letters on the page to make sure it looks right too. Just to be sure, they know how to "slow check" the word by running their finger slowly under the letters of the word to see if the letters match the sounds they make as they slowly say the word. This strategy also works great in writing too!
In writing, we finished working on our small moment stories and this week we'll be doing a study of punctuation. We've learned a lot about how writers write about what they know, and so we've worked on writing about small moments from our lives. We take one small moment and write lots about it. We write about what happened, how we felt and what we though. Many of us are remembering to punctuate some of our sentences already, and hopefully we'll get closer to punctuating every sentence soon!
This week in math we will be introducing dimes and adding combinations of pennies, nickels, and dimes. We will review graphing by creating our own class graphs. The children will be exploring dot patterns on dominoes to find the sum of the two parts. Remember to keep practicing addition and subtraction facts at home. This quarter, we will be working on addition and subtraction facts to 10. Look for Home Links 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11 to come home this week.
This week we will be starting a new social studies unit on communities. Please return the parent letter that came home last week if you would like to come into our classroom to tell the students about your job.
Special Points of Interest
- Scholastic Book Orders are due November 19th. Flyers will be coming home sometime this week. Shop Online: scholastic.com/readingclub Class Activation Code: JBVLX
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