Peek At The Week

Only in New England! :)  Well, I am sure we will have warmer weather soon and see more flowers blooming! In the meantime, I have been so very proud of all the hard work your children have been doing everyday! Thank you for your continued support at home by checking over their homework and teaching them about being responsible.

Here are some of things we are working on:

In Math:

• Completed Topic 11 on adding and subtracting 3 digit numbers
• Completed 40% of our goal on ST Math, which is great so far!
• Began Topic 12 on Geometry 
• Learned and reviewed the names of solid shapes (3-D) and plane shapes (2-D)
• Had a shape hunt in our classroom with a partner
• Played a new game to find shapes

In Writing/Social Studies:

• Completed our individual continent research and began writing our final drafts
• Some students just finished and many are on their way. They did an amazing job!

In Science:

• Began our unit on wonderful weather
• To start we will learn about the 3 main parts of weather : sun, air, water and how the water cycle works

In Fundations:

• Started Unit 13 on the sounds of o that match the homework
• Practiced trick words using trick word relay
• Practiced dictation using apps and paper and pencil
• Played Desk Pop

In Reading:

• We read A Friend Like Ed and compared it to another similar story Lionel and Amelia.
• We practiced our summarizing skills and asked 5 W questions
• We had great discussions about our own friendships too

The Science Center held a special Assembly for us to help us learn how to recycle more at lunch in order to have less waste.

Thanks for checking in!

-Mrs. Farrand 

Sorting our trash

Geometry Shape Hunt

Update

I hope all of you were able to go vote today. I know I did! Thank you for sending all of the snacks in for our Snack Attack basket. It is going to look awesome for the fundraiser this weekend. :)

We have been busy bees since returning from winter vacation. We are currently working on regrouping 3 digit numbers with addition and learned a new game too! We also are working on creating a class book on North America in Social Studies and Writing. They have been working hard! 

Here are some pics for you to enjoy! 

-Mrs. Farrand

Saying goodbye to our Beanie Babies

New Regrouping Math game

Peek At The Week

A Snow Day?!! After an almost 60 degree day, that was certainly unexpected! I hope all the kids had some time to play in the snow! 

Here's a peek at what we did this week:

In Math:

• Began Unit 10 on place value up to 1,000
• Used base ten blocks to solve problems with 3 digit
• Learned expanded form 200+30+9, standard form 239 and number word two hundred thirty-nine vocabulary
• Used 10 more/less or 100 more/less to solve problems in the hundreds

In Social Studies:

• Started discussing maps and globes and their differences/similarities
• Watched Brain Pop Jt. videos on maps and continents
• Made a "Where I Live" booklet and folder
• Learned about 7-5-4-2 for the 7 continents, 5 oceans, 4 hemispheres, and 2 poles
• Learned 2 songs and made a map to help us remember the 7 continents and 5 oceans
• Learned about cardinal directions N, E, S, W
• Began a landform and bodies of water booklet

In Writing:

• Practiced leader and follower sentences for homework practice

In Fundations and Reading:

• Read Lionel and Amelia
• Compared them using a Venn Diagram
• Discussed friendships and differences
• Practiced writing a summary

Continued to work on Unit 9 /r/ sounds for er, ir, ur

*Don't forget to send in a snack for our Snack Attack basket!

Subtraction Poem

Peek At The Week

We had a great short week! Please remember that reptile reports are due on Monday 1/25! Make sure your child is writing fun and interesting facts about their reptile. Also, they should be drawing a habitat for their reptile picture!

Our field trip is next Thursday 1/28! We are excited to see Miss Nelson is Missing live on stage!

We are wrapping up reptiles and will have a test on Wednesday 1/27.  A study guide is going home today to help them prepare.

Peek At The Week

Hi Everyone! January is flying by! 2016 has been great so far!

Here are some things we did this week!

In Math

• Practiced regrouping for subtraction using cubes and paper and pencil for two-digit numbers and one digit numbers
• Practiced regrouping for subtraction using cubes and paper and pencil for two-digit numbers and two digit numbers
• Learned a new poem to help us- This will help at home too!

In Fundations:

• Began our Unit on r controlled syllables for ar, or
• Practiced trick words
• Learned the words harm and forbid
• Took our i-ready test
• Learned about two sounds for or- or, ore

In my Reading groups we are working on text features of non-fiction books. We will read some non fiction next week.

In Science: 

• Continued learning about reptiles by watching All About Reptiles DVD and writing facts
• Assigned them a special report due on January 25th! They got to choose which reptile they wanted.
• Read about the differences between reptiles and amphibians and used a Venn Diagram
• Read about different turtles using a poem
• Read the book One Tiny Turtle about sea turtles and looked at pics of Mrs. Farrand from a turtle sanctuary in the Cayman Islands!
• We have a cool snapping turtle Miles too!

In Writing:

• Learned about diamante poems using winter and summer as a topic
• Reviewed nouns, ing verbs, and adjectives
• Miss Martin came in to continue talking about bullying too

Have a nice long weekend! 

-Mrs. Farrand 

Happy Holidays!

We had a great short week! It was so nice to read all of the compliments the students wrote for their secret pals and we had such a great time finding out who their secret pals were! Thank you for your help with this special project. They gave very thoughtful gifts and had fun too! I hope you have a wonderful vacation with your children!

Reminder- Field trip money is due on Tuesday, January 5th. Please make sure you send in the slip and payment by then if you have not already! :)

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