Dear families,
I hope you enjoyed the little bit of sunshine on Sunday and maybe forgot about the snow on Saturday morning! My oldest son turned 15 on St. Patrick's day and we celebrated by going to his swim meet!
In reading this week we will continue to work on looking for literary language in reading workshop. We are practicing new reader's theaters plays for the week as well. We have been noticing similies (comparisons), playful language such as "the words flew out the window", alliteration and repeating phrases. We will read more about a favorite character, Mercy Watson.
In writing, students have been writing longer opinion letters in the form of booklets. We have been using a check list to remind ourselves what an opinion letter includes. We wrote about the characters, retold a favorite part, talked about the title and the cover and a lesson that is learned through reading the book. This week we will continue to write opinion letters, making them longer.
In Social Studies, we have begun the new unit on Producers and Consumers. We have learned we are all consumers! We focused on ice cream and the processing of ice cream. We will make a flow chart to tell the important steps in the process.
In math, we will continue to work on number stories with more than one step. We learned how to make a ball park estimate (rounding numbers to the nearest 10). I can see this will take a little more practice for us!
On Tuesday our class will visit the Media Center and shop for books with Mrs. Banks. If your child forgets his or her money, we can have students shop during lunch recess.
Friday is a half day for students, dismissal time is 12:09. Please email me any changes in your child's daily dismissal routine to avoid any confusion that day.
March is reading month book logs are due Monday. Please total your child's minutes and write them in the box at the bottom of the book log for week 3 - this saves me some time!
Thank you!
Mrs. Scheck
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