Weekly Update 12/7

Happy Monday! It's hard to believe that we only have a little over two weeks until Winter Break! The excitement is high in the classroom :)

For homework this week, the students will be asked to write a personal narrative story about a holiday family tradition. If you don't celebrate a winter holiday, it can be a story about any holiday throughout the year. This assignment will take the place of the weekly Reading Log. The children will be encouraged to share their stories with the class. In addition to the writing assignment, your child will have a math worksheet 2 nights this week and their Spelling Tic-Tac-Toe.

This week we will be focusing on making words plural during our phonics lessons. The students will learn the combinations that require you to add -es instead of just s.

We will also do a lesson on Character Traits which will lead us into a seasonal writing in which the kids will get to pretend that they are an elf and have the opportunity to use character traits to write a persuasive letter to Santa telling him why he should hire them.

During reading groups this week, we will continue talking about character traits by describing the traits of the main characters in our Guided Reading books.

Math this week will focus on using place-value and expanded form to compare 3-digit numbers. We will do a practice Open Response question where the children will make sense of a 3-digit number represented by base-10 blocks by making trades or counting. Then we will come together on the following day to analyze explanations and drawings and then the children will have the opportunity to revise their work.

We will be finishing up our unit on Matter this week by continuing to sort objects (solids, liquids, and gases) by their scientific properties (color, shape, size, odor, texture, and weight). The students will be taking their Matter Assessment on Thursday.

Reminders:
Tuesday, December 8th is School Store for Grade Two
Thursday, December 10th is an Early Release (Professional Development)

I hope you have a great week!