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-Mon Jan 16 - No School Martin Luther King Jr. Day -Thurs Jan 12 - Fieldwork to St. Johns Bridge *This trip is weather dependent* We will be keeping a close watch on the weather reports, but there is the possibility that this fieldwork will need to be postponed. I will keep you all updated! Homework for this week: -Read each night for at least 20 minutes -Spelling Homework! This week, we will begin spelling homework. A list of 10 words will go home with the students on Tuesday along with a spelling activity menu. Students will pick four activities from the menu to complete over the week. This will begin going home each week every Tuesday and will be due back the following Tuesday. Math We slowly eased back into math this week by reviewing our geometry concepts. The students worked in groups to recall the definitions of our vocabulary words. Then, we categorized the words based on their meanings. For example, we realized that almost all of the shapes we've learned about fall under the word "polygon." We also reviewed line of symmetry and finished drawing on lines of symmetry onto our snowflakes. This week we will wrap up our geometry unit with an assessment and begin multiplication. Ask your student to describe how we categorized our geometry words Listen to your student explain what line of symmetry is Extend the learning by finding the lines of symmetry on objects around the house Literacy This week, we got back into the habit of guided reading groups and our literacy centers. In our reading groups, we practiced answering questions about what we just read. We answered the who, what, when, where, why, and how of our different books. We are almost done with our read aloud book "Woof," each chapter ends on a cliffhanger and has us anxious to know how the book ends! Ask your student to describe what has happened so far in their guided reading group book Listen to your student predict how they think the book Woof will end Extend the learning by reading together at home and then responding to the who, what, when, where, and why questions Expedition This week, we eased back into expedition by first reviewing the different types of bridges and its properties by drawing it. We added this to our bridge wall which serves as a visual representation of all that we have been learning about so far. We used the rest of the week to edit our individual writings about bridges. We are continuing to edit our conclusions and have briefly begun to edit our word choice. Ask your student which drawing they created for our word wall and to describe it Listen to your student explain which categories their bridge falls into on our bridge wall Extend the learning by brainstorming different words that can describe our bridges Please let me know if you have any questions or comments!
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