Unit 3 Week 4 Preview

We will be discussing how we can be creative and resourceful and likewise how the characters in our selections exhibit these characteristics and what it is that inspires them. Our vocabulary words for this week are: create, hobby, inspire, resourceful, structure. Among our selections this week is a fantasy by Harry Horse called A Friend for Little Bear, in which a resourceful toy bear learns the importance of friends over collecting possessions. Another selection is Karen Lynn Williams' story Galimoto about a resourceful child in Africa who has to make his own toys from found objects.

Our comprehension strategy will be making inferences in order to draw conclusions, our comprehension skill. Our sight words will be: after done, find, old, new, work.

We will continue with final silent 'e' long vowel spellings for the remaining vowels along with open syllable long vowels as well as the remaining stanzas of our vowel poem.

Everyone should have brought home a world map at this point labeled correctly from which to study for our next social studies test. We will also discuss the concepts of reusing, repurposing, and recycling.

We will also be taking a look at and finding symmetry in a variety of shapes and using the idea for a few art projects.

We have to cover some difficult math concepts in this topic. Please check to be sure your child has completed all classroom assignments as well as homework assignments in order to reinforce concepts presented in class.

Reminder: reading logs are due Jan. 31.

Final Reminder

Reading logs were due today. Students not having a total of 3 reading logs turned in by tomorrow will have '2' on their progress report in the area of homework.

Additionally, we had our first trip to the school library today. You will find either a library book in your child's backpack or a pink permission slip which needs to filled out completely in order for books to be checked out from school.

Also, if your child brings in one library book from an outside library (ie. Carson Public Library) they will receive a star on the star chart.

Fifteenth Day

We are focusing on the definition of a sentence for grammar this week. We listened to the fairy tale The Princess and the Pea, while reviewing this week's robust vocabulary. We are focusing on plot as our comprehension strategy. Our skills for identifying the middle of the story are improving. We began work on our second thinking map, Bubble Map, in order to describe ourselves. This map will come in handy when writing our personal narratives. We also continued work on our Unit Project.

In math we related story problems to addition sentences. We will have a test on Topic 3 on Friday.

Your child's first reading log is due Friday.