1/29 to 2/2

Hello,

It was fun to celebrate NDLC last week! Students had fun meeting with their third grade buddies, dressing up, and celebrating our school. There are a few pictures from last week located on the NDLC Charter School Facebook page if you want to check it out!

Upcoming Events:

January 30th: Progress reports and class pictures will be sent home

January 31st: Book Orders are due. Remember you can order online at https://clubs.scholastic.com/ and use our classroom code: QJMYM

February 14th: Valentine’s Day, wear red or pink

February 16th: Funky Friday

February 22nd/23rd: No School

February 27th: Family Night: Music and Munchies

Reading: We are beginning a new reading unit this week called Readers Have Big Jobs to Do.  This week we will teach students that when readers take charge of their reading, they stop at the first sign of trouble and then try something to solve the problem.  We will focus on trying to use more than one strategy when stuck and asking ourselves, Does it make sense? Does that look right? And Does that sound right? At the end of the week we will set goals for ourselves and ask our partners to help us when it gets tough.

Writing: We are finishing up writing reviews about our favorite places, toys, and movies.  We are going make anthologies with our finished pieces.  We will continue our opinion writing unit with writing reviews of our favorite books.

Word Study: This week we are finishing up with Unit 6. We are continuing to learn about base words and the suffix -s. We will also review our trick words, have a few new words of the day, and learn about phrasing stories.

Math: This week in math we are continuing to learn about adding and comparing 2-digit numbers. We are going to learn the Count On strategy and how sometimes you need to group a new decade when you add them together. We will also compare two digit numbers and use our greater than and less than symbols to do so. At the end of the week we will have our Unit 4 practice test.

Content: This week in science we are learning about our 4 seasons. We will complete a close reading on our seasons, create a diagram of our 4 seasons, and experiment to answer our question of why do we have four seasons.

Let me know if you have any questions.