Erosion Exploration
February 8 - 12
In literacy skills block we will be focusing on the long e sound spelled -ee and -ea. Our spelling words for the week are: see, tree, knee, sheep, keep, beach, teeth, street, speak and dream. Remember, your child can practice these words at Spelling City.
We will also continue working with contractions, ABC order and Naming words for things and places. Our high frequency words for the week are: cow, table, now, there, through, door, horse, wall, should and another. Your child should practice reading their word cards nightly. In Readers' Workshop our guiding question is ..How does noting details in a story help me to become a better reader? Students will be sharing details of their books read at guided reading and independent reading. We also will continue practicing retelling a story using graphic organizers.
In Writers' Workshop the students interviewed a friend in the class and they will write their first report on that friend. Today we talked about the different ways we might begin our friend reports.
In math we will continue addition with 3 addends and during Math Investigations we will continue working on our block towns. By the end of the week, we will be reviewing concepts from the Quilt Squares and Block Towns book in preparation for the end of the unit performance assessment. In science, we will continue discussing weathering and erosion. Today we explored the effects of rainfall on soil and the changes that may occur. Later in the week we will be talking about the importance of water and also water safety.
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