News from Room 205
Reading Workshop: ​This week in reading workshop we have been
learning how to use our reading superpowers! Reading superpowers
are strategies that help readers tackle tricky words and read their
books. This week, students learned two superpowers - sound power
and sight word power. Sound power is sounding out words using what
you know about letters and the sounds they make. Sight word power
is finding sight words you know and using sight words to help you read
other words. Students have their very own ring of reading
superpowers to use during independent reading. Ask your student to
show you how to use one of the powers next time you read together!
Writing Workshop:​ In writing workshop we learned that writers
zoom in on their small moment by staying and ending their story
without leaving the small moment they are writing about. We also
learned that great writers start their sentences with a capital letter and
end their sentences with punctuation, like a period. We also learned
that writers capitalize the names of people and places in their writing.
Encourage your child to use capital letters and punctuation when
writing sentences!
Fundations: ​This week in Fundations, we learned how to form
lowercase e, r, d, and s. We also practiced tapping and spelling cvc
words with each letter and reading and writing sight words by playing
Roll a Sight Word.
Math: ​In math students have been working with the equal sign. We
started the week by learning that we can put an equal sign between
two expressions that have the same whole to show that the
expressions are equal. We call this a true number sentence because it
is equal. An example of a true number sentence is 4 + 3 = 6 + 1. We
also learned how to decide if a number sentence is true or false by
finding the whole on each side of the equal sign and how to find the
missing part in a number sentence to make it true.
STEAM: ​On Monday we tested our kites! Many partners had kites that
almost flew and we learned that engineers don’t always succeed the
first time they test something they build. Partners then thought about
how they could improve their kite by changing the material they used
for one part of their kite. This week we also read ​Rosie Revere
Engineer by Andrea Beaty. We discussed how Rosie Revere is engineer
and how we are engineers too.
Other Notes
● Sign ups for fall parent conferences have been sent via
SignUpGenius. Please consider signing up if you haven’t yet!
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0949aaac2fa3ff2-fall1
● Early Release - October 27th (school ends at 1:20 pm)
● Trunk or Treat - October 30th (5:30 pm - 8:00 pm)