February 27 - March 3

Important Dates & Info/Reminders:

• Please fill out this homework survey by the end of the day today, March 3rd to let me know if you are interested in having differentiated reading and math homework for your student. If you do not respond to the survey, I will assume that you do not wish to have extra work sent home for your student.

• We will have P.E. with Mr. G for specials next week.

• March 6-10: i-Ready Growth Monitoring week

• Scholastic orders are due March 24. You can shop online here, just enter the class code Q2M6Q.

• March 13-17 NO SCHOOL: Spring Break

What we learned this week:

• Reading: We started our new reading unit: Holidays and Celebrations. We read a book called “Celebrating Earth Day” and discussed cause and effect. Ask your student to tell you the central message or main idea of the book.

• Writing: Students were introduced to opinion writing. We brainstormed what we have opinions about and learned the difference between a fact and an opinion. We also learned how to spell the word “because” and use it in our writing.

• Math: We took our Topic 7 test and started Topic 8: More Addition and Subtraction. Lesson 8-1 is about decomposing 5 to solve problems. Example problem: Alex plants 5 daisies in a flowerpot. Some are yellow. Some are red. Use counters to show one way to break apart a group of 5 daisies. Complete the equation to show how many red and how many yellow daisies. 5 = _ + _ We are now working through our math lessons in 3 small groups. I will choose certain problems on their worksheet to do in class with me. You can finish the ones we did not complete together at home.

• High Frequency Words: This week we learned the words “our”, “out”, “all” and “good”. Words we have learned so far: I, a, am, the, like, eat, in, it, did, into, and, we, see, go, no, so, has, as, is, his, does, box, on, was, man, am, at, that, hand, ran, friend, they, he, little, play, men, red, help, end, yes, went, get, way, away, say, day, run, up, under, must, and, you, there, big, with, very, our, out, all, good. Please continue to practice reading and writing these words at home.

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