I hope everyone had a safe and restful spring break!
Thank you for taking time this week to join me on Zoom for our winter term PTCs. I hope the students enjoyed sharing their goals and writing with you! I will be posting photos of their published work on Seesaw, so please take a moment next week to check your child's Seesaw journal.
If you have additional questions or concerns you would like to discuss, please do not hesitate to email me.
Thank you for your continued support!
- Ms. Allison
Nonfiction Readers Learn about the World
Our new reading unit is all about nonfiction. At the beginning of the week our class worked together to organize our classroom library into two groups: fiction and nonfiction.
- Fiction - books about made up people and events
- Nonfiction - books about real things in the world around us
We started to look closely at the special parts of nonfiction books (e.g. table of contents, headings, captions), then searched for examples of the text features while reading the books from our library. We will continue to learn more about text features next week.
Text Features
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Writing Expository Writing Our class started a new writing unit this week. We are focusing on expository writing. Students learned that when you write an expository writing piece, you share information about something or explain how to do something. During this unit, students will work on publishing a how-to paragraph. Examples:
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- Ideas - Think of something you can explain.
- Organization - Put the steps in order.
- Conventions - Following the writing rules (grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization)
Addition and Subtraction to 40
This week we took time to review addition with and without regrouping. We also practiced adding three numbers and making 10. After working on addition, we started subtraction without regrouping. We will continue to learn more about subtraction next week as well and students will begin practicing how to subtract with regrouping.
Air and Weather
This week our class revisited the science question, "How can water be used to show that air takes up space?" To help answer this question, I put a foam ball on top of the water, put a vial over it and pushed it under the water. I let some of the air out and we observed the foam ball and saw the water level in the vial change.
Science Vocabulary
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- Ms. Allison