Since it is a very short school week, the blog is coming a little early! I hope that you have a great Thanksgiving and enjoy spending some extra time with your family. This Thanksgiving, I am so incredibly grateful to have each one of your children in class! I love learning with and from them. I know this is all made possible by the time and effort you put in with your child at home, so thank you for that!
Reminders/Updates
- Monday will be Day 6.
- Some students have a ring of cards attached to their agenda. These are words that I have noticed they have misspelled in their writing that they should know. Students should write these words five times both at school and at home. Because some students have been misspelling these words for a couple years, it takes a lot of practice for our brain to realize the correct way to spell the word. That is why we practice so much! Once we see that they can spell the word correctly in their writing, we'll take it off the ring!
- At home, students can write these words with paper and pencil, markers, fancy pens, "skywrite" with their arm, use a dry erase board, rainbow write with different colors, or any other ideas they come up with!
- Kwik Trip Gift cards Fundraiser -- NDLC earns 5% back on each gift card sold and 10% back on non-fuel purchases made in store with the gift card. Orders are due November 29th and can be picked up at Family Night.
- Do you ever get frustrated when working with your child on reading? Do you ever wonder why they are making those mistakes? Well, try it out! Below is a simulator on experiencing what a young child goes through when learning to read. Reading is a hard and complicated process! Students need strategies to learn how to tackle the tricky parts.
- This is a friendly reminder that your Book Clubs orders are due by 12/13/17 this month. I set the order early in December so the books can hopefully be shipped before winter break! You can place your orders online at scholastic.com/bookclubs
using my class activation code: P8W4T or you can write a check from the paper copy. Happy Reading,Miss. Kabara
Upcoming Events
November 22-24: NO SCHOOL
December 7: Pajama Day
December 7: Family Night
December 8: NDLC Wear
December 12: NO SCHOOL
December 14: Holiday Wear
Curriculum Update
Math: So far in Unit 2 we have finished up the remaining multiplications, meaning we learned to multiply with all factors from 0 to 10. The next part of Unit 2 focuses on problem solving and multiples of 10. Next week, we will work on two-step word problems. These can be challenging as they require multiple steps to solve AND students need to decide which operation to use. We will also multiply with multiples of 10.
Check out some efficient strategies that your students came up with for multiplication and division! :)
Writing: This week we finished our Opinion Unit. I saw students get more interested and engaged in this unit since after all, they do have a lot of opinions to share! We even saw how far we have come since the start of the unit by comparing our first piece of Opinion to our last. Next unit will be information writing. We'll start with our on demand and then brainstorm ideas and understand the structure of information texts.
Word Study: This week we will learn about suffixes, specifically -s, -es, -ed, -ing, -er, and -est. A new word study packet will go home on Monday for students to practice with during the week.
Reading: This week we completed our mystery unit! Students did an AMAZING job being real detectives and solving the mystery of "WHO STOLE OUR CHAIRS!?" They now know what it takes to be a great reader-- reading carefully for details (clues) and thinking of the characters (suspects)! This next week we will be beginning our next unti-- Nonfiction reading! We will be reading to learn AND reading to TEACH others! I don't want students regressing all they've done in their fiction reading so about 3/4 of each Reading time I will have students switch to reading a fiction text. They will also most likely be bringing home a fiction book for their reading homework. The big goal of this unit is to get students to figure out the main idea and details of a text. We will be practicing by note-taking using boxes and bullets!
*Scholastic book orders will be sent home when we come back from Thanksgiving!
Content: Students have been loving our world unit! This week we discussed directions and continents. Next week, we'll learn about the oceans, mountain ranges in the United States, and rivers. Feel free to ask your child what they have learned about the world and share what you know too!
Check out some pictures of students exploring the world through different maps, books, a globe, and searching in online databases!
Know that you can always contact me with any questions or concerns. Have a wonderful weekend!
Best,
Jenny
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