Reading
This week we will be using nonfiction texts to make connections between individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text. The students will also continue to locate key facts or information through headings, tables of contents, glossaries, etc. Students will read and discuss grade appropriate nonfiction texts. This discussion will connect to the informative writing that students will be doing.
Writing
As just mentioned, students will be using information from reading and discussing nonfiction texts to create informative writing pieces. Students have already created a class writing about Hilliard Crossing Elementary. They have devised a list of possible topics they could select from to do an individual writing. This week, students will choose a topic, create a graphic organizer to assist them, and begin to write an informative piece of writing. At this point in the year, students should be secure in beginning and ending punctuation. They should be secure in forming capital and lowercase letters correctly. Students should be focusing on content and creating interesting pieces of writing. Continue to work with your child at home writing letters to family, emails to friends, and stories that they create. Thank you for your continued support.
Word Work
Work on these new words: into, other, going, when
and these patterns: words that end in t and end in d.
Please Please Please review all word work words. They will constantly be used in the dictation sentences.
Math
We have started a unit on geometry, measurement, and graphing. Students are working on 2 dimensional shapes this week as we further explore: circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, hexagons, trapezoids, rhombuses, and parallelograms. Students will be composing larger shapes from smaller ones. They will be discussing the attributes or qualities of shapes and will be comparing shapes according to attributes.
We wil continue to work on computation as well. It is critical that students are able to compute simple addition and subtraction facts quickly and accurately. Please work on the strategies that follow:
+/- 0 4+0=4 6-0=6
+/-1 4+1=5 6-1=5
+2,+2 7+2=9 8-2=6
doubles 7+7=14
doubles plus 1 8+9=17 (really 8+8=16 and 1 more)
count on 6+3= 7,8,9
count back 9-4=8,7,6,5
Practice counting forward and backward up to 500.
Social Studies
"How can we as tour guides create brochures to tell visitors about the things to see and do in Hilliard?"
This is our driving question as we embark on a journey to learn about maps. We have created a list of things we "need to know" before we can answer this question. First, we need to understand what a tour guide is. Second, we need to understand how brochures work. Then we need to learn how maps work. We have explored brochures and we recall how tour guides work as we discuss our memories of our field trip to the Hilliard Historical Society. NOW, we are learning about how maps work! Ask your child to keep you updated about their learning!
Other Information
Last Friday was the end of the second grading period.
March 5th-Late Start Day
March 12th-Trip to CATCO Theater
March 13th-PTO Meeting
March 24-28-Spring Break
Please send in Box Tops to support our PTO.
This week we will be using nonfiction texts to make connections between individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text. The students will also continue to locate key facts or information through headings, tables of contents, glossaries, etc. Students will read and discuss grade appropriate nonfiction texts. This discussion will connect to the informative writing that students will be doing.
Writing
As just mentioned, students will be using information from reading and discussing nonfiction texts to create informative writing pieces. Students have already created a class writing about Hilliard Crossing Elementary. They have devised a list of possible topics they could select from to do an individual writing. This week, students will choose a topic, create a graphic organizer to assist them, and begin to write an informative piece of writing. At this point in the year, students should be secure in beginning and ending punctuation. They should be secure in forming capital and lowercase letters correctly. Students should be focusing on content and creating interesting pieces of writing. Continue to work with your child at home writing letters to family, emails to friends, and stories that they create. Thank you for your continued support.
Word Work
Work on these new words: into, other, going, when
and these patterns: words that end in t and end in d.
Please Please Please review all word work words. They will constantly be used in the dictation sentences.
Math
We have started a unit on geometry, measurement, and graphing. Students are working on 2 dimensional shapes this week as we further explore: circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, hexagons, trapezoids, rhombuses, and parallelograms. Students will be composing larger shapes from smaller ones. They will be discussing the attributes or qualities of shapes and will be comparing shapes according to attributes.
We wil continue to work on computation as well. It is critical that students are able to compute simple addition and subtraction facts quickly and accurately. Please work on the strategies that follow:
+/- 0 4+0=4 6-0=6
+/-1 4+1=5 6-1=5
+2,+2 7+2=9 8-2=6
doubles 7+7=14
doubles plus 1 8+9=17 (really 8+8=16 and 1 more)
count on 6+3= 7,8,9
count back 9-4=8,7,6,5
Practice counting forward and backward up to 500.
Social Studies
"How can we as tour guides create brochures to tell visitors about the things to see and do in Hilliard?"
This is our driving question as we embark on a journey to learn about maps. We have created a list of things we "need to know" before we can answer this question. First, we need to understand what a tour guide is. Second, we need to understand how brochures work. Then we need to learn how maps work. We have explored brochures and we recall how tour guides work as we discuss our memories of our field trip to the Hilliard Historical Society. NOW, we are learning about how maps work! Ask your child to keep you updated about their learning!
Other Information
Last Friday was the end of the second grading period.
March 5th-Late Start Day
March 12th-Trip to CATCO Theater
March 13th-PTO Meeting
March 24-28-Spring Break
Please send in Box Tops to support our PTO.