Due to our day off on Tuesday, we were VERY busy this week! The kids have been working really hard on their most recent writing project, which is a realistic short story. They've used graphic organizers to develop their main character and to map out their story plan. They're drafting their stories now and will be publishing them next week. Be watching your child's folder to see his/her latest writing piece.
Our math concepts are getting very challenging and the children are doing a great job keeping up. We're still working on place value as well as name collection boxes, rounding, and estimating. We'll finish this unit next week with our outcome assessment. In the meantime, we're still working on the memorization of basic facts. I hope your child has been practicing his/her facts at home.
Science has still been a favorite subject this week. The kids have been learning about the ways that matter can change, such as freezing and melting. We're going to continue our science unit next week with the Water Cycle.
The children continued to explore how using what they know helps them as readers. They learned that good readers use clues in the text to help them figure out what the author doesn't tell them directly; this strategy is called making inferences. Making inferences means using text clues, plus what the children know, to make a guess about characters, ideas, or story events. The children were given several opportunities to make inferences in our shared reading story, Dear Juno.
Please take note of these upcoming Grand Prairie events:
- Monday, November 14th - - Lights for Learning order forms are due
- Tuesday, November 15th - - Rain Forest Family Night at 6:30 p.m. in the gym
- Wednesday, November 16th - - Picture retake day
- Friday, November 18th - - 2nd quarter midterms go home
Happy Veteran's Day!!
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