week of March 4, 2019

Mrs. Borden and Mrs. Jones’ Newsletter (week of March 4, 2019)

Writing- We did a writing this week using information from our Antarctica story.  We had to complete a prompt about what we would do if we went to Antarctica and complete an illustration to match it.  We saw penguins, swam with whales, and gave food to the animals there.  We will be completing a prompt from the stories each week in addition to working on the writing activities in our Building Writers book.  Great story telling everyone!

Reading- We have a new story this week and it is: Abuela and it is a fantasy story.  Our essential question is: What kind of adventures can you have in a city?  Our amazing words are: abuela, adventure, flock, city, airport, harbor.  We will be working on the setting of the story and we will be looking at the features of a city compared to where we live.  Attached is an article on beginning readers.  Because we are working so hard on blending sounds together to read words and reading sentences, here are some tips to help out at home.  These tips can be used even if you child is past the beginning reader stage but is moving on to more difficult text and sounding out those words.  Keep reading everyone!

Math- We are well into Unit 4, Understanding Addition.  We are looking for number stories everywhere.  We are telling addition stories with counters, drawing them on the dry erase board, writing them on the back of our papers, and acting them out.  We will also continue to work on counting by 1s and 10s, what number comes next, what number is missing in a series of 3, more/fewer, and reading a 2 and 3 digit number.

Science/Social Studies- Well, we had a day for Dr. Seuss’ birthday! It was so much fun!  We tried Green Eggs and Ham and talked about how we should try new things and decided if we liked them or not.  We enjoyed our activities with the students from Bloomsburg University.  We read so many of Dr. Seuss’ classic books and had a few crafts that we worked on to match some of the characters in the stories like: Thing 1 and Thing 2, Horton, and Fox in Socks.  We also had a chance to have some guest readers come from the High School at the end of the day.  Big and small, fun was had by all J

Important Dates:

Next week- Newspaper in Education Week, the reading log for that was sent home, please complete it and return it in your child’s folder at the end of the week if you wish to participate

Monday, March 4- Day 7, NSE PTO Meeting 6:30 pm

Friday, March 8- Hero Day for Career Week