February 1, 2023 – February 28, 2023
Hello families! I am excited SO excited about how hard your students continue to work! Please remember to check your child’s backpack and red folders every night. If you have not already joined our Class Dojo, please click on the link to join our class (Si aún no se ha unido a nuestro Class Dojo, haga clic en el enlace para unirse a nuestra clase).
https://www.classdojo.com/invite/?c=CZ8GT8K
This week we will be focusing on:
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Language Arts
- Main Idea and Details
- Asking and Answering Questions
- Compare & Contrast
- Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives
- Using Target Vocabulary in Conversations
- Prefixes/Suffixes
- Spelling words with digraphs (ch, ck, th, etc.)
- Character traits
- Writing an informational paragraph
- Taking notes on informational texts
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Math
- Add/Subtract Within 1000
- Place value within 10,000
- Rounding to the nearest 10
- Rounding to the nearest 100
- Using estimates when adding/subtracting
- Graphs/Charts
- Multiplication strategies within 100
- skip-counting
- number lines
- arrays
- groups of
- repeated addition
- Reading and writing basic fractions
- Telling time to the nearest minute
- Elapsed time
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Science
- Making Observations
- Light & Sound
- Weather Patterns
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Social Studies
- Classroom Community
- Biographies
**Coming Up**
- WIDA testing will be taking place all month
- Hope Week: 2/6 – 2/10 (more information to follow)
- NO SCHOOL (President’s Day): 2/20
Ways to set your child up for success this year:
- read for 20 minutes every night
- please have your child talk about what they read using at least five complete sentences
- ask your child to tell you about a successful moment each day and set goals for the next day
- join our Class Dojo so we can keep home/school communication going
- let me know if you have any questions or concerns so we can solve problems quickly