Feb. 22-26
REMINDERS
Tuesday:Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders on Wednesday morning.
REMINDERS
Tuesday:Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders on Wednesday morning.
Wednesday:Math homework is due.
Engineering Day.
Thursday: Library Day. All library books are due by 8:00 AM.
Talent Show at Canyon Vista Middle School: 6:00 PM.
Friday: Reading folders are due.
Engineering Day.
Thursday: Library Day. All library books are due by 8:00 AM.
Talent Show at Canyon Vista Middle School: 6:00 PM.
Friday: Reading folders are due.
READING and WRITING
This week we will begin a new genre, Poetry. We will learn about the features of poetry. Poems have short lines with no punctuation most of the times. There are repeating words or phrases in poetry. Poems sometimes rhyme and sometimes they don't. Poems have rhythms, some are songs and some could be silly and funny. We will think about how poets see the world in a different, fresh and unusual way. The students will make inferences with poetry as a strategy to comprehend the poem. We will also discover sensory language in poetry and understand that sensory images help us visualize the poem and make it more interesting for readers. In writing we will “See with Poets’ Eyes” as we begin writing about ordinary objects in different ways. We will learn that poems are big thoughts in little packages.
This week we will begin a new genre, Poetry. We will learn about the features of poetry. Poems have short lines with no punctuation most of the times. There are repeating words or phrases in poetry. Poems sometimes rhyme and sometimes they don't. Poems have rhythms, some are songs and some could be silly and funny. We will think about how poets see the world in a different, fresh and unusual way. The students will make inferences with poetry as a strategy to comprehend the poem. We will also discover sensory language in poetry and understand that sensory images help us visualize the poem and make it more interesting for readers. In writing we will “See with Poets’ Eyes” as we begin writing about ordinary objects in different ways. We will learn that poems are big thoughts in little packages.
MATH
This week we will start learning about geometry. We will identify two-dimensional shapes, including circles, triangles, rectangles, and squares as special rectangles, rhombuses, and hexagons, and describe their attributes/characteristics (sides, vertices, curves). We will also construct two-dimensional shapes with different manipulatives such as coffee stirrers, plastic drinking straws and other materials.
SOCIAL STUDIES
This week in social studies we will continue learning about physical characteristics of places learn about bodies of water and the characteristics of each such as river, lake and ocean. We will identify natural resources in our community, state and nation and ways they are used. We will also identify how human characteristics of places such as food, shelter, and clothing depends on geographic location of those places.
This week we will start learning about geometry. We will identify two-dimensional shapes, including circles, triangles, rectangles, and squares as special rectangles, rhombuses, and hexagons, and describe their attributes/characteristics (sides, vertices, curves). We will also construct two-dimensional shapes with different manipulatives such as coffee stirrers, plastic drinking straws and other materials.
This week in social studies we will continue learning about physical characteristics of places learn about bodies of water and the characteristics of each such as river, lake and ocean. We will identify natural resources in our community, state and nation and ways they are used. We will also identify how human characteristics of places such as food, shelter, and clothing depends on geographic location of those places.
THANK YOU!
Thank you for stuffing the folders, and being willing to help in the classroom or outside the classroom. Your helping hands and hearts are greatly appreciated!
More than anything, thank you for supporting your child's learning at home. Your child's success and education is a result of, us working together! So thank you for being a partner in your child's learning!
