Friday, Sept. 9th

Mrs.Alvarado’s Class News Friday, Sept. 9th Dear Parents, We have had a great learning week! We had a great class discussion about studying for tests. I feel like the class is taking more ownership over their own learning! This is a very impressive group of kids!!! Not only are they smart but they are also very kind to one another! A great combination! Take a look at next week: Reading- We finished The Secret Moose this week. We also started the book Frindle. Next week our focus lessons will be on comprehension, character traits, and summarizing. Grammar- We are going to have a grammar quiz over nouns on Monday. We have been reviewing in class. We will be starting a unit on verbs on Tuesday. Science- We are starting a unit on the water cycle and weather. Today we read a big book to introduce the topic and we worked on vocabulary cards. The class has a set of vocabulary cards now that they can use to study. Next week we are going to be making a water cycle in a bag! We will have Science in our writing class. The class will be hearing the story of Drip Drop. Then they will be sequencing the story. We will also be writing the story of a day in the life of a drop of water in the water cycle. It will be a fun week for science! Math- We started Chapter 3 on graphing this week. We will continue with Chapter 3 and 4 next week. Both chapters deal with graphing. Chapter 3 is learning how to make a graph. Chapter 4 looks at many different types of graphs. I will be testing both chapters together. No test next week. Writer’s Workshop- We are still working on the writing trait “Ideas”. Our lessons will be about sentence elaboration. We will also be working on a combination science/ writing lesson. Spelling- Sort 5- vowel pairs ai, ee, ea. Have a great weekend! Mrs.Alvarado