Our Week At A Glance
Week of: 2/18/20
Math-Common Core:
We continued working with coins and dollars to count various amounts of money. We used fake coins or the number line to figure them out. Today we had to figure out how much money was needed to get to a dollar. 46 cents +___= $1.00 This was very tricky for a good number of us. Remember to try and get some time in on Happy Numbers each week. We had two students already meet their goal for the week.
https://www.symbaloo.com/mix/numeracylinks
Reading
Story -The Drinking Gourd and trade books about slavery and the underground railroad.
Genre-Historical Fiction--realistic fiction-nonfiction
Skill-
Strategy-
Listen to your child read. Are they fixing words they read incorrectly when they realize it doesn't make sense? If not, they are not comprehending the text.
Use some of the skills and strategies while reading with your child in the evening. Practice fluency strategies.
Grammar- Heavy on using capitals and ending marks--This is still a HUGE problem for a few. Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives
Daily Five- We read to self, read to someone, listen to reading, word work, and work on writing. Ask your child what it looks like and sounds like during these times.
Remember--The more you read and write, the better you get.
Spelling: Drinking Gourd words list 2
Writing expectations include:
**Capitals and ending marks-- We are really focusing on rereading our work to catch these errors. We talked about using our quick word books and word wall to help with spelling.
Writing:
- Answering questions in complete sentences
- Journal entry
Writer's workshop: Informative Writing.
* We made a tiny tablet of ideas we know a lot about
*We are using post-it notes to list chapters for each topic.
*We are trying to use some nonfiction text features such as table of contents, index, glossary, fun fact page, things needed box, diagrams or labels.
*Learning to "squeeze our brains" to get more information in our writing
*Starting new piece
Social/Emotional Learning:
Focus and distractions
Science/Social Studies
The Drinking Gourd
Slavery
Fredrick Douglas
Sojourner Truth
Abolitionists
Civil Rights
Seesaw
Separate is Not Equal