January 17, 2020

Classroom Updates

It’s official! Our school year is halfway over. That is really hard for me to believe. Much of our week was devoted to completing or mid-year assessments. 

In math this week, we worked on developing an understanding of 3d shapes. We learned how to draw 3d shapes and learned about faces, vertices, and edges. We also played find the block, mystery block, double array, and completed math assessment, or a “best” as we call it! 

In phonics/spelling this week we have worked more on noticing endings of words, such as -ing. We also sorted words based on their ending sounds. Next week, our class will start working on spelling skills and strategies. The words we will be working on are:

1. Dress
2. Task
3. Drop
4. Skin
5. Still
6. Slips
7. Must
8. Crisp
9. Spell
10. Slide

Please review the spelling of these words at home with your child. We will continue to work with these words each day next week as well. 

Writing this week included finishing our cycle of free writing before we begin our work on our next project! We are working on adding more information, details, and descriptions into our writing.  

In reading, we continued to work on reading strategies and completed DRA reading assessments. 

In science, students investigated erosion. We talked about quick and slow erosion. We also learned about landforms and conducted experiments using water in Ag.

We also had Project Cornerstone last week. Mrs. Azevedo came in and read The Day you Begin, which is a wonderful book about uniqueness and finding out who you are. I will definitely be adding this into our classroom library! 

A special thanks to our wonderful parents who volunteer in and out of the classroom! I truly appreciate the help from each of you! 

Looking Ahead

• January 20th: NO SCHOOL

• January 27th: Open Enrollment Begins

• February 17th-21st: Holiday Break