Week of February 3rd

Math: We'll conclude Chapter 5 by practicing our math facts up to 20 before reviewing with games, our textbooks, and homework before taking our test on using related facts to find answers to math problems. We'll be starting to use related fact families in our daily calendar as well as continuing working with money. At the end of the week we'll be working with both 2D and 3D shapes.

Reading: With a new week comes a new unit! We'll begin by covering what we know about non-fiction books, review the features of a non-fiction book, and then learn about the three different types of non-fiction stories. We'll also look at the structure of a sentence and then practice building sentences that are more interesting. 

Spelling: Our spelling focus will be long /a/ words using the /ay/ spelling pattern.  

Writing: With our topics picked we'll begin constructing our stories by beginning with the beginning, middle, and end story structure. We'll also be doing free writing about what we would do with $100. 

Science: We'll begin this week by sharing how to be kind to our friends during this month of kindness.  Then after our 100's day challenges we'll be moving onto learning about the cardinal directions north, south, east, and west. We'll also do an experiment on how to make pretend snow and then learn about where American football started!