Expository Writing (how-to paragraph)
Last week students learned about how-to paragraphs and began pre-writing their own expository writing pieces. This week our class worked on writing (draft), revising, and editing their paragraphs so they are ready to publish.
Nonfiction Readers Learn about the World
During reading this week, our class learned more about text features: glossary, index, charts, graphs, diagrams, and labels. They practiced predicting what a book is about by previewing the text features and learned that readers gain more information by using text features. While reading, students were also using their best narrator voices to make the important and interesting facts and information pop out.
Air and Weather
The next part of our science unit focuses on weather. Our class asked the question, "What's the weather today?" We went outside to feel the air and check the weather. We discussed how the air feels outside and how we can tell that the air is moving. I explained that the sun affects the weather because the sun is the source of light that warms the air, water, and land.
We also talked about temperature and the class learned that a thermometer is a weather instrument meteorologists use to measure air temperature. Every morning during our morning meeting (calendar time) students will be checking the temperature outside and recording the weather using symbols in their own weather calendar.
Science Vocabulary
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Subtraction Facts to 40
This week we focused on solving subtraction problems with regrouping. Please continue to help your child practice addition and subtraction to 40 at home (with and without regrouping). Thank you!
- Ms. Allison