Read Across America & Superkids Day 2017

Hi Families! This week, in Room 4, was a busy one:

We kicked off the week with Read Across America, where students celebrated reading and Dr. Seuss. Students created Thing 1 and Thing 2 hats with their third grade reading buddies in Ms. Joyce class. Students had the opportunity to sit with their buddies at the assembly. The Read Across America Assembly was a lot of fun! There were teachers and staff dressed as Dr. Seuss characters and characters from Harry Potter. Students, as an entire school, spent 5 minutes reading quietly to themselves. You should definitely ask your child about it!

Today, Friday, we had our third annual Superkids Day. Students had an exciting day filled with hands-on center activities and games. Many of the students and teachers dressed as one of the Superkids and it was neat to see some of the creative costumes. Thank you for all your reading support at home. We have so many super kids in room 4.

In addition to these two celebrations students continue to work hard each and every day in math, reading, writing and science/social studies. Here's a quick look at some of our recent learning:

Math: Geometry. Students are learning about 2-D and 3-D shapes and their attributes. Students learned the following concepts and vocabulary: side, vertex, verticies, face, edge, corner. Students also learned about open and closed shapes.

Reading: Students learned about the possesive, plural and continued to decode and encode words following the consonant-vowel-consonent-e (cvce) pattern. We know that the vowel is long when it follows this syllable pattern. Students also praticed inferring during our comprehension toolkit lesson and practiced finding clues and making inferences. For this skill students practiced with poems as well as pixar short clips.

Writing: Students completed a pre-write exercise last week for their realistic fiction story. This pre-write will help guide instruction for the realistic fiction  unit that we are currently working on. Students have been working through a packet to build the story elements, such as character traits (internal and external), setting, problem, story events and the solution. We have been working more with story grammar marker and connecting our writing to this story retelling tool.

Social Studies: We continue to learn about US symbols and monuments. Students read a book about the American Eagle and wrote and did an illustration of the symbol. Students also read a story about the first American flag and how it was made. We are also learning about the liberty bell.

Thank you for all the reading you are doing at home! And as a final note: We are very low on snack and would love any donations. If you are willing and able, it would be greatly appreciated! Have a great weekend!