I have also input grades from this week. If your child is missing an assignment, I will talk to them on Monday about it.
Thank you for letting me teach your child. I am truly blessed to be where I am and I already love your little ones!
Literacy-
This week we will be taking two literacy tests. One on comprehension and the other to find out your child's reading level. This will help to determine the books they read in class as well as grouping for centers among other things.
We have been working on writing an informative paragraph about Johnny Appleseed and will finish it up this week.
Your student will be learning how to determine the plot of a story. We also are learning what a complete sentence is. As a student it is important to be able to speak and listen, so we are going to discuss and show what that looks like.
Religion-
Our first topic in religion is God our Father. We are talking about our souls and heaven. We will continue by talking about how our souls separate us from the rest of creation. We will be talking about the Bible. The saint of the week will be St. Therese of Lisieux. On Friday we will be making sacrifice beads.
Math-
As part of being good mathematicians, we have been reviewing addition and subtraction. We have been writing number sentences as well working with word problems. This week we are going to talk about fact families and the commutative property.
Homework online will be 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6. Please see information regarding homework in the reminders section below.
Social Studies/Science-
Over the past week we have been working with continents and oceans and identifying them. Your students have learned two different songs and I have included them. We also played a game that your child might enjoy playing at home. You can find that game here.
This week will will be continuing to study our world. We are going to be cartographers and create a map. We will also be studying where we are on the map. Your child should have a sense that we are part of a big city, state, country, continent and world.
Continents
(To the tune of: "Its a Small World")
It's a small world after all!
It's a small world after all!
It's a small world after all!
It's a small, small world!
North and South America,
Europe, Asia, Africa,
Australia and Antarctica,
It's a small, small world!
The Oceans
(To the tune of "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean")
The earth is all covered with ocean,
The earth is all covered with sea,
The earth is all covered with ocean,
More water than land, don't you see?
(Chorus)
Water, water, there's water all over the world, the world,
water, water, there's water all over the world.
So salty and cold is the ocean,
So salty and cold is the sea,
So salty and cold is the ocean,
Too cold and too salty for me.
Chorus
Atlantic, Pacific, the Arctic,
Southern and Indian, too.
These oceans all cover our planet,
I named all of them, now can you?
Chorus
*These songs were not created by me. They were created by Bruce Frazee, Chris Garcia-Prats, Jenny Tasian, Amy Yang Hawthorne Elementary /Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas*
Spelling-
We will have our first spelling test this week. On Monday, we will take a pretest in the planner. After this first week, we will have differentiated spelling lists.
The spelling words for this week are as follows:
rock
job
sack
mess
list
sad
tag
dust
desk
chop
rib
drum
Please help your child practice their spelling words by using the Spellers Choice Menu sent home Monday. (These will not be required to turn in.)
Reminders-
On Friday, math homework 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6 will be due. Until October conferences, I ask that you and your student just get used to getting online and taking the quiz. After October conferences, students will be required to turn in all homework sheets on Fridays.
Our annual Jog-a-thon will also be taking place on Friday. Please have your permission slips back to me by Wednesday or your child may not be able to participate.
If you have questions about anything, please feel free to email me.
St. Therese of Lisieux, pray for us!
