Last week we were busy with holiday activities. This week will be a bit quieter. There is no school Tuesday.
Math: This week's topics are: Relating Pennies, Dimes & Quarters; Counting on to Add; Working with prices on a graph; and Solving Problems that Involve Money.
Reading Workshop: "Readers notice the patterns in books." is the overall goal for this unit of study. We will look at the different kinds of patterns. This week's focus is on recognizing text patterns in a story. A text pattern can be a repeated line or how a book is formatted. One book that has an obvious pattern is "Brown Bear" by Eric Carle. The pattern of question and answer gows through the book. Another thing we will look at is seeing if the pattern "breaks" at the end. This happens in many books.
Writing Workshop: This month's unit of study is on descripitive writing. I refer to it as writing "snapshots". The idea of this is to describe a person, place or thing so well that the reader can picture it in their head, like a snapshot. These are short writing pieces rather than full stories. The technique of describing something will be important for all of our future writing.
Homework
Monday 11/1
1. Read for at least 15 minutes
2. Fall Word Work
Tuesday 11/2
No School
Wednesday 11/3
1. Read for at least 15 minutes
2. Math: How Much Money?
Thursday 11/4
1. Read for at least 15 minutes
2. Review for tomorrow's spelling test
Have a great week!
