October 9, 2019
Dear Parents, I have been enjoying some time with my three-year-old grandson, so I apologize for the delay in sending the classroom newsletter. Listed below are some updates to keep you informed: CURRICULUM Reading – Students have been learning how to write an informative paragraph with a clearly stated focus and facts/details from the text to explain their ideas. They have been taught to organize their paragraphs as follows: introduction sentence, focus statement (main idea sentence), body sentences (explain more about the challenge and how it was overcome), and conclusion sentence. This week, we began Unit 3 in our module on Overcoming Learning Challenges by determining the gist (what the text is mostly about) and central message of a text called More Than Anything Else. This engaging book describes the challenges Booker T. Washington faced with reading. Later in the week, students will write an informative paragraph about the lesson in this book and how it is conveyed through details in the text. Math – For the past week in our graphing unit, students have been interpreting scaled picture and bar graphs. They have been learning how to answer one and two-step “how many more” and “how many less” problems using information from these graphs. We will have an assessment on this short graphing unit tomorrow. In our next unit entitled, “Stories with Addition and Subtraction,” students will learn various strategies to accurately add and subtract whole numbers up to and including 1,000. Social Studies – In our “Civics and Government” unit, students have been researching the responsibilities of the local government, using the Chrome books. We grouped these responsibilities into 4 main categories: Transportation, Safety/Security, Education, and Recreation. We have also been learning about the 3 branches of government – executive, legislative, and judicial – and even made paper bag trees with branches to represent the 3 government branches. UPCOMING DATES Thursday, October 10 - 6:00 - 8:30 pm – United Skates Spirit Night Thursday, October 17 - 5:30 - 7:00 pm - Family Night Sincerely, Ms. Underwood
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