Dear Families,
Brrr! This was definitely our chilliest week this year. We are glad to see students coming prepared for the cold. Students will go out to recess everyday unless the temperature drops below zero.
Reading This week we focused on summarizing. Students often like to retell the whole story so we’ve worked on just telling the important parts. We use a graphic organizer called, “Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then.” Students use this to explain what the character wanted, what the problem was, and how it was resolved.
Writing
The students are working on writing complete paragraphs with a topic sentence, supporting details and a conclusion. These skills are the building blocks for our writing to inform unit. In this unit, students will be writing informational pieces about a variety science and social science units.
Math
In math, we are continuing to work with rounding to the nearest ten and hundred. We’re also learning efficient strategies for adding larger numbers. Number Corner this month is all about fractions, so students have also been working to identify different fractions as well as equivalent fractions with different denominators.
Social Science We’ve begun our discussion of why European explorers explored North America. Students will gather information about who the explorers were, why they were exploring, and noting what they found. This week we introduced the Vikings.
On January 19th, PIE will be hosting a learning event called “Proficiency Based Learning - Part 2.” More details should be listed in an upcoming edition of the Viking, which can be found online at http://hcsvt.org/Page/4487.
Have a great weekend, and stay warm!
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