Our Week in Review

I hope everyone had a great weekend! Here's the news from Room 16...

Math
This week, we wrapped up Unit 1 in math. There were two parts to the test- the general test and an open response question. I will be reviewing the tests with the students tomorrow, then sending them home for you to review. Please sign and return your child's test once you have reviewed it with them. We also began Unit 2 on Friday. We worked on solving addition number stories. The students even wrote an addition number story of their own!

Reading
We began our Treasures reading program this week. This week, our main reading selection was called, David's New Friends. While reading, we were focusing on the comprehension skill of character and setting. Students should know that characters are the people or animals in a story and setting is the time and place. While reading at home with your child, ask them about the main characters and the setting of the story. It is great to reinforce these comprehension skills at home. In grammar, we discussed two types of sentences: statements and questions. The students did a great job distinguishing the difference! Next week we will learn about commands and exclamations.

Science
In science, we learned that matter is anything that takes up space and has mass. We focused mainly on the concept that matter is anything that takes up space. The students traced various items in the classroom and determind what object took up the most space, and what object took up the least space. There are some pictures of students doing this activity below!

Word Work
This week was the first week where I marked a word wrong if your child capitalized it on their Friday test. I do this so that students become more aware that they should not capitalize common nouns. Our spelling rule this week was short a and short i. To reinforce this skill, the students did picture sorts (as a class and independently) and read a passage and highlighted any words that had short a or short i (see pictures below!).

Reflection Journals
Your child should have taken home a Reflection Journal on Friday. I sent home a flyer explaining the journal, but please be sure that your child's journal makes it back to school. Thanks!