With one week to go before Winter Break, students are beginning to feel the excitement. Just a quick reminder to check on the edline website, https://www.edline.net for future posts. Please try it out this week and let me know if you have any problems logging in. All of the log in information was sent out earlier this year.
Reading:
Keep reading and recording minutes for the month of December. Don't forget to keep it oging over Winter Break. I apologize that bus riders did not bring home a reading book on Friday. I did remember in time for the rest of the students to pack their books before they left.
Secret Life of Trees
Your child is reading The Secret Life of Trees, by Chiara Chevallier. This nonfiction selection discusses the life cycle of a tree and explains that trees can be home to many different animals, including birds and insects. This selection also discusses the two main types of trees – broad-leaved trees and conifers—and explores trees that grow in tropical climates.
Please encourage your child to read The Secret Life of Trees over the weekend. Vocabulary Power precedes the story.
Focus Skill: Fact or Fiction
Vocabulary Power:
discover-find out; learn for the first time
energy-the power to do things
forecast-predict
shed-throw off
source-a pace from which something comes
Writing:
Students are working on different forms of poetry, based on a winter theme. They recently completed a shape poem and will begin work on an acrostic poem.
Math:
This week we will be starting Unit 5: 2D Shapes. A family letter describing the unit will go home with students tomorrow. Listed below is a brief overview of the unit.
• Vocabulary: digit, numerals, value, compare, hundreds, attributes, addend, sum,
difference, array, equation, multiplication, equal, pentagon, hexagon, quadrilaterals,
rows, column.
• Strategies for addition and subtraction
• All sums of two one-digit numbers.
• Dollar and cents symbols and their placement.
• Strategies for addition and subtraction
• All sums of two one-digit numbers.
• Dollar and cents symbols and their placement.
Science/Health:
We are continuing our nutrition unit with the help of the dragon, Little D. Students have covered all 5 food groups and will begin work on a Power Point Food Riddle.
