Monday, February 25, 2019

week of February 25, 2019


Mrs. Borden and Mrs. Jones’ Newsletter (week of February 25, 2019)

Writing- So far in our “Building Writers” notebook, we have been working on telling a story in proper sequence using First, Next, Last.  We have been copying that story one sentence at a time and talking about what we have learned in each step.  We have also illustrated a picture to match the story. 

Reading- We have a new story this week and it is: If You Could Go to Antarctica and it is a nonfiction story.  Our essential question is: What would it be like to have an Antarctic adventure?  Our amazing words are: Antarctica, icebergs, continents, penguins, seals, whales.  We will be working on characters in the story along with classifying and categorizing.  We are also reviewing syllables (or parts of a word) like if we would say the word “pickle” the students would clap the syllables and clap 2 times.  We are working on rhyming families too and stressing that they need the same ending to rhyme (bat, cat, fat, rat, hat, sat, etc.)

Math- We have moved into Unit 4, Understanding Addition.  It is going great!  We have an understanding of counting two set of objects together to get a whole number as well as starting to write some number sentences and tell a story about the number sentence.  For example: Mrs. Borden gave out 2 stickers and Mrs. Jones gave out 3 more, how many stickers do we have in all?  2+3=5.  We are writing number sentences on dry erase boards and also using counting manipulatives to show the problem.

Science/Social Studies- We made it to the end of February and are ending it with a little dental health discussion.  We will then be so excited to start March with Dr. Seuss’ birthday, one of our favorite celebrations in school!  We will also be looking forward to winter ending and spring beginning so that we can see all the new life that it brings!

Important Dates:
Monday, February 25- Day 2
*Book Logs are due at the end of the month!*


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