Reading Goals: This week, students are choosing two reading goals. These reading goals are on a bright green sheet of paper they will keep in their Reading Log folder. Once your child has chosen his/her goals, please sign the goal sheet, showing that you and your child know the goals for this nine weeks. So far, they are picking great, challenging goals! Once children have set their goals, our reading homework will no longer say "Read for 30 minutes." Instead, it will just say "Reading Goals." We are setting goals that will mean your child should read for about thirty minutes each night, so hopefully reading time will be about the same.
Reading: This week, students are reading nonfiction articles paying close attention to details to help them better respond and interact with the text. We will also begin looking at decoding words and our first signpost: contrast and contradiction. You will hear more about these signposts in the upcoming weeks, but just know that these are things that readers look out for as they read to help them understand the text.
Math: Our focus is still place value with particular attention to rounding. There are online rounding games that can be found on our Schoology page. Also, don't forget to help your child practice his/her multiplication facts!
Language: We are working on upper case cursive letters this week as well as common and proper nouns.
Alabama History: Students are researching specific regions of Alabama to learn more about the geography of our state. We will also discuss the counties in our state and hopefully do some map reading this week.
Science: We will be completing a few fun experiments this week to see just what light can do as well as looking more in depth at our three focus words for this unit: transparent, translucent and opaque.
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