Newsletter Volume 22

Math-Last week we worked on composing 2D shapes using triangles, trapezoids, parallelograms, and hexagons to create a composite shape and compose new shapes from the composite shapes. So we were able to put to 2 trapezoids together to make a hexagon, or 2 triangles to make a parallelogram. Have your child tell you come of the new shapes they made by combining shapes together.

Writing- We continued to work on our “How to…” writings. They began working on their own stories and we were checking for complete sentences, the correct steps to do their how to with lots of specific details and using sequential words like first, second, third, and fourth, or first, next, then, and last.

Daily 5- We have started to use our fiction and non-fiction retelling stars when are done reading the story and we use this as an aid to help us retell the story.

Wilson Fundations- We finished up our unit where we tap out the baseword or root word and then blend in the suffix “s”. Then we started our new unit where we are working with the glued sounds: “ung, ong, ing, and ang.” I sent home a parent letter last week with more information about this new unit. Since these are glued sounds, they cannot be tapped out separately. Instead they are tapped with 3 fingers together. So for the word “rang” it would be /r/ to the index finger and then /ang/ would be tapped with the middle, ring, and pinky fingers together.

100^th day of school! -Our 100^th day of school was last Thursday. Everything we did that day involved the number 100! We first saw how long 100 seconds really was and did 100 jumping jacks. We even read 100 books that day! WOW! We did lots of fun activities like finding things that were shorter, longer, and exactly 100 centimeters, wrote about how we are 100 days smarter, made a cool picture using the numbers 1-0-0 and even made a self portrait of what we think we will look like when we are 100 years old. It was a very fun day! Check out some of our 100^th day activities in the hallway!

Important Information:

-Geo Animals- There will an information sheet coming home on Wednesday about the “Geo Animal Project.” This will be a project that you and your child will complete and make the project at home, using 3D shapes. We will do the research and type up the report at school.