101- Weekly Updates (December 3-10, 2021)

Dear Families of Room F1, We’re going to have a great upcoming week. Below is a short description of what’s coming up and important links and/or announcements: Watch These Announcements on Video Here Mr. Gray’s Class Podcast Class Website Multiplication and Division Facts Practice (Check your student’s progress report) Don’t forget to sign up for PTA! Reader’s Workshop We will work on some reading strategies for fiction books. We will discuss Character’s feelings and how those feelings change, back up ideas about characters with evidence and empathize to understand characters (putting myself in the character’s shoes). Students will keep post-its of their thinking in their Reader’s Notebook that include evidence from the text. Writer’s Workshop The kids will continue work on their 3rd information book. Not only will students type the book on a google doc but we will work on ways to add text features to make their books more exciting. Math What happened to math class? We will take a quiz on Wednesday about using multiplication in multiplication tables, finding the missing number, the distributive property, and multiplying single digit numbers by multiples of 10. We will review on Tuesday and kids can bring home their review to study. Social Studies The students will continue studying the history of California looking at how California has changed over time and by studying the cultural history of California. Science No Science this week. Thank you, Mr. Gray