Dear Parents, November 12, 2013
I hope that all enjoyed the 3-day weekend!
We are starting theme 4 in our reading series this week. The theme is “Family & Friends”. Our reading strategy is “summarizing”. After reading a story, we should be able to retell the important parts of the story. While reading, we pay attention to the main idea and the important details in the story and this will help us retell the story. Our comprehension skill this week is “drawing conclusions”. While reading, we pay attention to what is happening in the story not only for summarizing but also for drawing conclusions. Thinking critically, and being able to conclude or make a true generalization from a story will help us become good, strategic readers. Our phonics focus this week is words with ‘l’ clusters. We will also review contractions with ‘s, consonant ‘r’ clusters and short /o/ words in our reading. Our grammar focus continues to be on the naming and action parts of sentences. This week, our spelling words are from unit 14 – clusters with ‘l’.
In math, we will begin Unit 4, which will begin with us learning about thermometers and measurement.
Science finds us learning about the food chain and reviewing what living things and nonliving things are in our world.
In social studies we will begin practicing for our Thanksgiving Play. We will present our play in class on Wednesday November 27th –time to be determined.
Within religion we will learn focus on our Family Life Series “I Grow and Learn”.
Reminders and Announcements for the week:
- Remember PE clothes for Tuesday!
- Please remind your child to bring their library book to school on Tuesday so that they may check out a new one.
- Flag Retirement Ceremony on Tuesday at 11:15.
- Wednesday is a $1 Free Dress.
- Assembly on Thursday at 11:15.
- Friday is a full day with families in the afternoon!
If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.
Ms. Manning
