I know some of you are interested in reviewing school concepts at home. Here is a list of the concepts we have been working on this past quarter.
Writer's Workshop:
- Writing a personal narrative (small moment story) across pages with a beginning, sequence words and an ending.
- The students also need to remember correct capitals, spaces, ending marks, and spelling sight words correctly.
- They also use their strategies to spell words: stretch it, go find it, and/ or circle it.
Our next unit is writing informational text. Stay tuned for more information.
Math Workshop:
Math concepts this quarter:
- Number sense
- Skip counting
- Even and odd
- Place Value
- Expanded form
- Comparing numbers
- Greater than, less than or equals to
Second quarter math concepts (flash cards coming home today- you may keep them for home):
- addition
- subtraction
- mixed addition and subtraction
Here are the strategies that will be taught and used this quarter:
Pumpkin dance instead of the pumpkin run