This is it! The chicks will
hatch this week! Look for pictures and
videos through email. We are all so
excited!
READING and WRITING
We are continuing
with our animal research this week. The children are doing a great job finding the information in
their research book, summarizing it and recording it in their own words. They are using all the tools in the
non-fiction books such as table of contents, real photos, captions, labels,
maps and diagrams to find the answers to their questions. We also use on-line sources such as
Pebble Go or other reliable sources to find the information that we are looking
for. There are times that we find an expert (friends that know so much about a
particular animal) and ask them some of our questions. We have quite a few
experts in our classroom so far, but I can see that by the end of this unit we
are all going to be research/animal experts!
MATH
This week we will review and work more on place value. We will use concrete and pictorial models to compose and decompose numbers up to 120 in more than one way as so many hundreds, so many tens, and so many ones. For example one hundred can be shown as 100 ones, 10 groups of tens, or 1 one hundred. This will help us to read and write three-digit numbers that do not involve teens. For example, 105 has one 100, 0 tens and 5 ones. We will use our knowledge of place value and apply it in math problem solving.
SCIENCES
This week we will continue our PBL (Project Based Learning) about litter and our animals, the ecosystem that they live in and the impact that they have in our community. We have done some research about how litter can be harmful to animals and ways we can help. This week, we will be making posters to put around the school to raise awareness about the effects of littering.
This week we will review and work more on place value. We will use concrete and pictorial models to compose and decompose numbers up to 120 in more than one way as so many hundreds, so many tens, and so many ones. For example one hundred can be shown as 100 ones, 10 groups of tens, or 1 one hundred. This will help us to read and write three-digit numbers that do not involve teens. For example, 105 has one 100, 0 tens and 5 ones. We will use our knowledge of place value and apply it in math problem solving.
SCIENCES
This week we will continue our PBL (Project Based Learning) about litter and our animals, the ecosystem that they live in and the impact that they have in our community. We have done some research about how litter can be harmful to animals and ways we can help. This week, we will be making posters to put around the school to raise awareness about the effects of littering.
HABIT #4: Think Win-Win: I
balance the courage of getting what I want with consideration of others.
REMINDERS:
*Specials- A Group: PE on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
B Group: PE on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
**Wear tennis shoes for sure on these days!!!!
*Library- Tuesday 11-11:30
*Send orange folders and homework bags back every day.
*Send a healthy snack with your child every day. We will eat snack at 10:30
DATES to REMEMBER:
*Specials- A Group: PE on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
B Group: PE on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
**Wear tennis shoes for sure on these days!!!!
*Library- Tuesday 11-11:30
*Send orange folders and homework bags back every day.
*Send a healthy snack with your child every day. We will eat snack at 10:30
DATES to REMEMBER:
April 15: Chicks start to
hatch!!!!!!!
May 1: Field Day
May 4-8: Teacher Appreciation Week
May 7: Field Trip to Austin Nature
Center
May 11-15: Book Fair
May 14: Caraway Fine Arts Night
May 21: Volunteer Breakfast
May 25: No School, Memorial Day
June 5: Last Day of School, End of
the Year Party
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