The students had a fun morning with scientist Judy for our Scientist in the School workshop on Energy last week.  It was a great kick off to our new Science unit. We have also started our new unit in Math.  The students have just started Linear Measurement.  We have discussed why measurement is important and what we need to remember when we are measuring different objects. The students will have a brief quiz on patterning this week. Please note that your child should have brought home a letter and rubric about Procedural Writing.  Please return the rubric to school with your initials/signature to show that you have read the expectations.  We will use this rubric at school to assess their writing.

This week the students have been working on procedural writing in Language.  As a class, we wrote a procedure on: How To Blow Your Nose.  The students were introduced to the words we use when writing a procedure such as first, next, then, after that, and finally.  You can have your child make procedures at home using these same starters.  Some examples could be how to set the dinner table, how to make a bed, or how to brush your teeth.  The students continue to work on patterning in math.  They have been making their own patterns using different attributes and different pattern rules.  Ask your child what type of pattern they made with their snake. We will be wrapping up our unit on patterning next week.  This week we also started our new science unit on Energy by watching movie on what energy is.  The Scientist in School will be a great kick off to the unit.  

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I'm just writing our weekly update.  This week, the students have been learning their new math unit on Patterning.  Some of the key words they are currently working on are pattern rule, core, attribute, repeat, and extend.  See if your child can tell you about any of these concepts.  We will be working on these concepts for another week.  We have also started our new writing unit on Procedural Writing.  We call it the "How To" writing.  Ask your child the different ideas we generated for "How To" writing.  We are still in the very early stages of this writing unit.  The focus thus far was to introduce the topic by reading a story about a procedure and working with partners to generate some ideas on topics.  This week the students learned their new writing goals.  Ask your child for their personal writing goal that they are currently working on.  In reading, we are still working on different reading strategies, such as vowel pairs and sound blends.  Try looking for some of these when reading the Snuggle Up books. This week we also finished our science unit on Daily and Seasonal Cycles.  We will start our new unit on Energy next week.