This week we are wrapping up our non-fiction writing unit. We celebrated our hard work and shared our stories on Thursday with our classmates. Next week we will begin a unit on Opinion pieces. Check out the pictures from our share. In December we will invite parents in for our Opinion piece celebration. Stay tuned for details.
In math we began a new unit this week. Our New Unit is "Addition & Subtraction Within One Hundered". This unit focuses on strategies for multi-digit addition and subtraction within the range of 0 to 100. The first module emphasizes the number line model and encourages students to develop the strategy of using "skip-jumps" based on multiples of 5 and 10. The second module continues to use the number line as a computational tool through which students add and subtract 2 digit numbers. the third module focuses on addition and subtraction, but uses the base ten structure (collecting ones and tens). The fourth module requires students to determine the frequency with which various colored objects appear in a bag and to graph the data.
In readers workshop we continue to work with non-fiction books but our focus is on comparing texts on the same topic. We have talked about how experts grow knowledge across books by noticing parts that go together and adding to what we already know.
This week we wrapped up our Physical geography unit working on a map journal and talking about the compass rose and the directions; north, south, east and west. Next week we will begin our first science unit. We will be looking at various animals and noticing their unique characteristics and how humans have adapted those characteristics to help solve problems that we have.
Have a wonderful weekend,
Nancy
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