Links You Can Use at Home

Phases of the Moon Game
http://www.neok12.com/diagram/Moon-01.htm

Number Sense Game- Place Value - Greater Than/Less Than
http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/math-games/number-sense/

Room 206 Weekly Updates

We had a great week learning in room 206! Here is what is on tap for next week.

Phonics

Our spelling focus next week is glued sounds such as ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk.

We started talking about "Bossy R" vowels this week and will continue next week. A "Bossy R" vowel is when the letter r comes after a vowel, and it controls the way the vowel sounds.

Here are some examples for Bossy R that we learned this week:

ar-car-/ar/

or-horn-/or/

We will learn the sounds for /ir/, /ur/, /er/ next week.

ELA/Reading/Writing

We are going to continue our study of adjectives next week. I hope you enjoyed the pictures from our adjective face-in-a-hole project this week.

Next week we will be investigating fall gourds/vegetables and using adjectives to describe them.

We will brainstorm adjectives that describe "Fall" to connect with our current season and our science curriculum.

We will also connect to science by writing a five line poem about any of the seasons. Each line will use a different sense to incorporate using senses and visualization.

Math

Next week will focus on telling time. We will use hands-on clocks that we can manipulate to help us understand the functions of the minute and hour hands. We will create clock booklets and work in small groups with the teacher for extra support.

We will also spiral back to base-10 by doing a building numbers activity using place-value mats and number cards.

Science

We are wrapping up our unit on the sun, moon, and stars next week. On Monday and Tuesday they will use choice boards to pick in-class projects to work on to show their understanding of the content.

On Wednesday we will play a review game in class, and on Thursday we will take a test to assess this unit.

Field Trip

Friday we will be going as a grade-level to the Center for Puppetry Arts to see the puppet show The Headless Horseman. I will be contacting you if your child has not turned in a permission slip yet.

Heather Regnault will serve as a chaperone. Thank you Heather!

AR

Please continue to encourage your child to be reading AR books to reach their goals.

Seasons Books

Please remember that your child's season book is due tomorrow. It is a grade, and it is imperative that they turn it in. Thank you!

Adjective Faces!

Check out our adjective self portraits!



Report Cards

Report cards will be sent home tomorrow instead of today. Morningside will be sending out an e-mail notice to parents later today.

Weekly Updates

Here is a look at what we will be up to this week!

Phonics

This week our spelling rule is the bonus letter or FLSZ (pronounced floz) rule. When a word has a short vowel followed by f,l,s, and sometimes z at the end of a word, we double the f,l,s, or z.

We also will learn about the glued sound "all" that we find in many words, and we will start talking about the "bossy R" rule.

Spelling words will be on the back of the homework planner for the test on Friday.

Reading

Visualization is still the comprehension skill we are focusing on. We frequently talk about making pictures in our heads while reading text without illustrations. I often have the students do this during our current read aloud, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

This week the homework planner will feature AR goals. 

ELA/Writing

I am introducing adjectives this week. We will use lessons on the Promethean board, write sentences using science words and adjectives, do a project using adjectives to describe ourselves, and we will do a Halloween character art project that will incorporate an adjective writing assignment.

Math

Unit 3 will begin this week. Our focus this week will be base-10 place value and using coins to buy things. We will use base-10 manipulative blocks on Monday and Tuesday. Our objective is to understand place value. Students will understand the value of each digit in a 2 or 3 digit number.

On Wednesday-Friday we will work with play money to learn how to use money to buy things. They will be engaged in different activities such as deciding what coins to use to buy fruit from a fruit stand, playing a partner game to practice exchanging a large amount of coins for a smaller amount of coins that has the same value, and writing number stories.

Science

We are continuing our Sun, Moon, Stars unit. On Monday we will learn about scientists who study outer space. We will use the reading skill of "asking questions about the text" to learn more, and we will use the higher order thinking skill of comparing and contrasting to analyze the two scientists we read about.

During the rest of the week we will learn about why we have seasons. The students will understand the relation between the length of day and night and the seasons. Thy will understand the tilt of the Earth when we do a lab activity on Wednesday. The students will also understand what causes the seasons to change.

On Friday we will use math skills to interpret a graph and answer questions about it.

Field Trip

Please send in the permission slip for 2012-2013 field trips by Wednesday.

Our first field trip will be on October 26 to the Center for Puppetry Arts.

Mystery Reader

Thank you Michelle Constantinides for being our Mystery Reader!