Writer’s Workshop: Ask your child: I edited my nonfiction book and used a checklist to

help me reflect on my writing. I shared my nonfiction book with my classmates.

My classmates gave me stars and wishes on my writing.

I am now learning to write opinion pieces. I wrote an opinion piece on my favorite Dr. Seuss book.

Reader’s Workshop

Ask your child: Ask me to summarize the

Read Aloud The Notebook of Doom: The Rise of the Balloon Goons!

As I learn about the Inuit culture I am learning how to evaluate a text to determine the important and unimportant information in a text. This week I used all that I have learned about the Inuit and created a file folder report on the Inuit

Ask me to retell the story, How Day and Night Came to Be. This was a story the Inuit told to each other.

Ask me about the One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish sorting activity I worked on in Google Classroom.

I am learning to identify the theme in stories.

Mrs. Smoral’s Class

Math Workshop: Ask your child: Ask me to tell you about the patterns on the calendar

markers on our February Calendar Grid! Ask me to tell you about some of the flags I learned about this month.

Ask me to tell time on an analog clock to the 5-minute interval. I should practice telling time at home.

I am learning how to measure using the standard unit of measurement. I am learning about inches, yards and feet. How many inches are in a foot? How many feet are in a yard? How many inches are in a yard? Ask me to tell you some items I would measure with each of these units. Where in our world is the standard unit of measurement used besides the USA?

Ask me about the measure app I used on the iPad. I am learning how to design bar graphs and then analyze the

data. MATH VOCABULARY: half, start unknown in a story problem, change unknown in a story problem, result unknown in a story problem, equation, greater than, less than, inch, foot, feet, yard, ruler

Word Study: Ask your child: Ask me what word features I am using to sort my set of words.

Ask me to do a speed sort and a blind written sort. I continue to learn to write contractions.

New Vocabulary Words

Ask your child to define, syllabicate and use these words in a sentence.

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Learning Experiences

March 1, 2019

Special Happenings Ask your child:- Ask me about Mrs. Gilliland’s guidance lesson this

week. I learned about my brain! Ask me about the video I watched called Why We Lose Control of our Emotions.

- Ask me about Mrs. Albano’s guidance lesson. Ask me to retell the book What Do You Do With A Problem.

- Ask me about Mrs. Naple’s presentation on careers in art!

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

PTO PANCAKE

BREAKFAST TIME!