A Short Week

Even though we've had just a 3 day week this week our learning continues. In the Daily 5/Reading Groups we are focusing on thinking about using multiple strategies as we read. You have noticed the little yellow strategy sheet in your child's Guided Reading baggy. Good readers use multiple strategies to decode tricky words. We have talked about and modeled the use of all these strategies. I encourage the students to adopt new strategies when reading. Next week students will be choosing one of these strategies to put into practice as they read independently or with a partner. In Mathematics we have just completed the first unit in Investigations. Our next unit is called: Making Shapes and Designing Quilts. The focus for this unit include seeing realtionships between different shapes, using shapes to fill in another shape without gaps or overlaps, counting sets of objects, finding the sum of multiple addends, using reapeated units to create a pattern and seeing how changing the unit affects the whole pattern. Please continue to play the games/activities that were previously sent home for Mathematics Homework. Have a great weekend with your child!