Unit 2 Week 1 Preview

Our weekly themes in this second unit will center around our families and our neighbors having already examined ourselves, our abilities, and our growth. Our last idea about teams was that families are the most important kind of team. This week, we will explore the idea of families taking care of each other. For a unit project students will focus on a worker of their choice and write an expository piece about them. Our oral vocabulary words are guide, protect, provide, separate, wild. Our sight words are her, our, they, two. Our comprehension strategy this week will be to focus on summarizing a selection. We learn to summarize by developing the skill of distinguishing main ideas from details. Summarizing a selection is a different skill than a retell. Where a retell would be to tell a story in our own words with as much interesting detail as possible, a summary isolates only the most important ideas answering the basic questions of who? what? where? when? why? and perhaps how? This story is about a girl walking in the forest who seeks food and rest in the home of 3 bears. In phonics and spelling, will take a more detailed look at some long vowel spellings this week beginning with 'a_e'  (cane) and 'i_e' (ride) along with inflectional ending '-ed'. In grammar we will discuss sentence subjects and nouns.

For Social Science we will continue comparing and contrasting the past with the present (HSS 1.1.4) (tested). We will examine photos of schools long ago.

In Theatre Arts we will present our tableau we have used teamwork to create.

Seventeenth Day of School

Students have an optional page of homework for the weekend. If you decide to have your child complete the page, I will collect it on Tuesday.

Discussion focus: What are the 3 states of matter? What liquids and solids do we have present in our house? What is your favorite liquid? How can a solid be transformed into a liquid? (add heat) How can a liquid be transformed into a solid? (remove heat).

You may be interested to see your child open their "magic box" and put on their clown costume (Drama).

Math test Wednesday.

Start Smart Conclusion

This week we will continue to review more sounds and letter formation. All students have been assessed in oral phonics skills and sight word reading. We have begun our Unit Project. We will be authoring a book entitled All About (name of student). We will continue work on this project over the next 2 weeks.

Tomorrow we will participate in our first VAPA (district) drama lesson with Ms. Jordahl.