Language Arts

What are we learning?

In our new unit, we will be focusing on analyzing characters within fiction texts and writing personal narratives or fiction stories.

• In reading, we will follow characters and develop ideas about how and why characters grow and change by noticing what they say and do and using our own experiences to understand how they feel.
• In writing, students will learn to get ideas for stories by thinking about true stories that happened to them, made up stories that could really happen (realistic fiction), and action/adventure stories. They will be working on using their brainstorm of ideas to draft many different stories!

Home/School Connection

Reading

Encourage your child to talk about the characters in stories they read! You may ask:

• Who is your favorite character? Why?
• What would you have done if you were the character
• Why do you think the character______________?
• How would you have felt if you were the character?

Writing

• Encourage your child to staple their writing pages together to make a “real” book!
• Continue encouraging your child to tell his/her story before writing. Your child can plan their writing across their fingers.

Math

What are we learning?

• We are working our way into unit 2.
• The focus will be on  and base ten values while building our understanding of place values. 
• We will continue to work on our addition and subtraction fluency

Home/School Connection

Have your students continue to make  counting collections and then take a picture of their collection (counted) to send to their teacher.

Science

What are we learning?

• Students will understand that plants and animals undergo a series of orderly changes as they grow
• Students will investigate and understand that living things are a part of a system.
• Students will investigate and understand that weather patterns and seasonal changes affect plants, animals, and their surroundings

Home/School Connection

• Students can take a nature walk and observe living and nonliving things. 
• Students could write about their observations. 
• Fun activity, collect acorns and place a huge pile, where you can see, and watch to see if squirrels take the acorns you have collected! Do you think  this is an act of kindness if you help them with  their collection for winter?

Social Studies

What are we learning?

• Students will be able to explain why we honor and celebrate major holidays including Indigenous Peoples Day
• Students will learn to use maps of the United States and the world to locate:
  • The 7 continents and 5 oceans
  • The equator, prime meridian and four hemispheres
  • Major rivers, lakes, mountain ranges and other major physical features of the United States

Home/School Connection

Spend time looking at maps or globes in your home. Have conversations about the different continents and oceans. Make personal connections to places you have knowledge about or places you’ve been to or traveled through.

Ask:

• How do landforms affect how people live their daily lives?
• Where do we live in relation to the equator/prime meridian?
• Which hemispheres do we live in?

Positivity Project

What are we learning?

• October 18-24: Forgiveness
• October 25-31: Creativity

Home/School Connection

Check out P2 for Families website: https://posproject.org/p2-for-families/

Ask students how they are showing these characteristics in school, during clubs, sports, or any other activity they are currently involved in.

Class Compliments

• Dore: As writers, you are learning to be brave with your spelling! You are spelling the best you can and you keep writing. That is what writers do!
• Edwards: We are becoming experts at our routine! Keep it up! Also watch the video found in our classroom on how to turn in your assignments for any additional support.
• Gregston: We continue to grow as a caring community in our online classroom. We all show many of the Positivity traits as we learn in a different environment; Perseverance, Kindness, Open-mindedness, Risk Takers, Showing Curiosity and Being Present! Keep up the excellent work! Tiger Strong!
• Serrano: These past few weeks we have been spending time getting to know each other outside of school conversations. We have been so welcoming to each other and started to build awesome friendships! Thank you for the respectfulness and kindness you are showing during these breakout group times!!

Click here to see what students are learning in Specials!