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Hi Parents!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Here is what’s going on next week:
In math, we will continue with our addition and subtraction unit. We will focus on the following strategies to help us solve addition problems: Drawing a picture, using our fingers, and using objects. We will review that the two numbers we add together are called addends and the total is called a sum. Students will also practice becoming fluent in making the sum of 10 in different ways: 8+2=10, 2+8=10, 3+7=10,7+3=10, etc. We will discuss that in addition, it doesn’t matter what addend comes first. We will still get the same answer. This is something good to work on at home. You can give students a number and have them tell you the number that makes 10. Students will play “Making 10 Go Fish” and “Break It” with snap cubes. Students will also get to create their very own “Making 10 Rainbow” that helps them learn the number pairs that make 10. . Here are the standards for our unit: MGSEK.CC.1Count to 100 by ones and by tens. MGSEK.OA.1Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. MGSEK.OA.3Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation. (drawings need not include an equation). MGSEK.OA.5Fluently add and subtract within 5. MGSEK.OA.4For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation. MGSEK.OA.2Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem. MGSEK.MD.3Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count. MGSE1.MD.4Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another. MGSE1.NBT.7Identify dimes, and understand ten pennies can be thought of as a dime. (Use dimes as manipulatives in multiple mathematical contexts.) Accelerated students will be working on fact families and addition error analysis. They will look at a word problem and the solution given, find the mistake, explain their reasoning, and solve the problem correctly. Please make sure students practice counting by 1’s and 10’s to 100 every night if needed. For students who have mastered this standard, you can practice counting by 1’s to 200 and/or skip counting by 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s, etc. In ELA, we will continue with our Lucy Calkins reading and writing units of study. In reading, we will continue our unit on nonfiction books. We will look closer as we read nonfiction books and talk about text features like a table of contents, glossary, labels, maps, and diagrams that help us learn more information when we are reading. We will also talk about reading different books on the same topic and discussing what we learned from each book. Did we learn any different information? Was some of the information the same? We will do this with our book talk power with partners. In phonics, we will be learning about the digraph “ph” and reviewing the following digraphs: ch, sh, th, wh, and qu. For read aloud, we will be reading two different versions of “The Princess and the Pea.” Students will get the opportunity to practice comparing and contrasting these books including the settings, characters, plot, and more. In writing, we will finish up our How-To Writing Unit. We will have a “celebration” in which students will be able to choose their favorite How-To book to read to the class. Students will also have a pre-assessment on our next unit which will be persuasive writing. In science, we will continue our unit on animals and habitats. Students will begin researching the animal of their choice. We will also discuss how parent and baby animals are the same and different and what parents do to protect their babies. We will also learn about Jane Goodall and her fight to keep chimpanzees and their habitats safe. We will connect this discussion to endangered and extinct animals. As always, please let me know if you have any questions! Alexis
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