Review Week!

This week we will be working hard! We will be finishing up Unit 8 and will be talking about what we see in the sky! Our vocabulary words are distance, recognize, space, challenge, and surface. We will be reading "Bringing Down The Moon", "Day and Night Sky",  and "A View From the Moon".  During guided reading your child will either read "Going Up" or "In the Clouds" and in our crabby books they will read "Up! Up! Up!". We will be reviewing all of our letters, sounds, and words as well as making and revising predictions and comprehending stories. We will also be focusing on opposites and similes.

In math we will be making patterns and looking at shapes closely to see how they change as we move them around. We will also be representing teen numbers with equations, manipulatives and our fingers. We will be telling, retelling, and solving story problems using a simple math drawing, equations, fingers, manipulatives, and our brains! When we tell and solve story problems we know that there are key words in the problem that we have to listen for to tell us whether or not we will be adding or subtracting. For example when we have to use addition we usually hear the words "in all", "total", "put them together", or "altogether". And when we use subtraction to solve our story problems we hear the words "how many do we have left", "how many are there now", or "are still there". Ask your student if they can tell you a story problem during dinner, or ask them a simple problem to see if they can solve it. For example "There are 5 rolls on the plate but mommy ate one of them. How many rolls are still on the plate?" My friends are getting really good at retelling and solving story problems I really so impressed! 

In writing last week we learned about the writing trait "voice" and this week we will be focusing on how to use it in our writing! I just know that my friends are going to love learning about font size, bold letters, dialogue, speech bubbles, and voice through punctuation!  

During Unit Studies we have been talking about how to take care of our bodies and will be reading some great books and making our own book about our bodies! Last week we took all of our pictures for our books and the kids loved it - we took sleeping pictures, hand washing pictures, and exercising pictures which of course was our favorite! 

I will be gone on Friday the 27th to help Ms. S (a teacher at Meadow Lane) get ready for her wedding. The kids are all super excited and happy for her and cant wait until she comes back so we can call her Mrs. Hill!!! Mrs. Bogner will be here for me and I am sure my friends will have a great day!