Writing: This next nine weeks, students will be preparing opinion pieces and providing reasons to strengthen their argument(s). Next week I will be sending home information to have your student bring in a small, favorite collection so that they can prepare an opinion writing piece that centers around their collection.

In Reading, students have had Phonics lessons the long o diagraph. They’ve been working on various grammatical concepts: identifying adjectives; pronoun usage; plural versus possessive nouns; prefixes; conjunctions. They have also been continuing to work on using context cues to figure out the meaning of an unknown word(s) in text. We started learning on how to tell a summary of story.  We will continue to work on that for the next copy of weeks.

In Math, lessons focused on counting backwards for subtraction; using the number line to help add/subtract; making a ten to subtract; and daily subtraction word problems. They also reviewed some concepts to which they had already been exposed, such as using number bonds to solve math problems and working with place value.

In Social Studies, students worked on me and my map.  All students will need to know their home address and phone number. We will continue working on this next week.

STEM Lab: Our class visited the Science Lab this morning and experienced a hands-on lesson on light. Ask your child to share what they learned about transparent, translucent, and opaque items. They were thrilled while making shadows on the walls, ceiling and tables, using flashlights and cut-out shapes, which were glued to popsicle sticks, for ease of holding. Creating similar items, using ends of paper/scraps, paper shopping bags, etc. found around the house would provide a great way for students to extend this lesson.   Check out more pictures on your child’s SeeSaw account.