Happy Valentine's Day!

February is already half over......Valentine's Day is Tuesday and only one week until February
Vacation. Spring is right around the corner.
Last week we learned all about the digraphs qu and wh and the endings -ed and -ing. We learned when we have to double the final consonant before adding these endings. In our
anthology, we talked about biographies. What type of information do we find in
a biography? We read a biography about Tomas Rivera. We learned many details
about his life. As a connection to what we learned in this story, the students
wrote about what they want to be when they get older during writer's workshop.
During reading groups, after working on our phonics focus, our comprehension
focus was details, sequencing and asking questions. Our grammar focus was using
I and me. Is it correct to say, "Julie and me are going out to play?"
In math, we were
talking about numbers - greater than and less than. We did a Smartboard lesson
that showed the greater than and less than sign as an alligator mouth and the
open part of the alligator mouth always faces the bigger number because the
alligator chomps on the bigger number.
In science, we made
balloon rockets. We set up a baggie on fishing wire strung between two chairs
and placed a blown up balloon inside the baggie. Depending on how big the
balloon was, the "rocket" sped across the wire to the other chair.
Our groups tried many different ways of making our rocket move. One big
balloon, two small balloons, two big balloons.....and some friends had races.
How long did it take your rocket to get across the wire?
A look at the week
ahead:
In ELA - Phonics
focus - r controlled vowels: ur, er and ir and inflections -er and -est.
Comprehension - Main idea and summarize. Grammar - using he, she, it and they.
In Math - skip
counting by 2's, 5's and 10's. Patterns on a 100's chart. 10 more and 10 less.
We will not have
science this week.
Have a wonderful
week!
Mrs. M
Mrs. Cataldo
Mrs. Fiore