93- Weekly Updates (September 13-17, 2021)

Dear Parents, 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 Support our classroom and school by joining PTA! PTA Pledge Drive Purchase a Yearbook Outdoor Movie Night September 10 7pm Chipotle Fundraiser September 28 4-8pm Reader’s Workshop We will continue our first reading unit. Next week we will continue practicing predictions and discuss making higher-level predictions. The kids will practice retelling stories by focusing on the BIG parts and even including their own thinking. They will also use their partners to support lifting the level of their reading. Writer’s Workshop Through Writer’s Workshop the students will craft true stories that center around a problem they have faced in their lives. Next week the kids will choose one of their stories to edit and publish. We will then use their ideas from before to try to choose a story with a problem and focus on writing techniques to become storytellers. Math What happened to math class? We will continue to study subtraction strategies next week up to 1000 and have a subtraction quiz. We will use the number line strategy, the counting up strategy, the place value strategy, and the standard algorithm. On Tuesday, the students will bring home their addition strategies quiz. On the quiz will be a link and a QR code. Use either one to watch  a video explaining the quiz. Social Studies We will continue our social studies curriculum by reading and studying California and its geography. Science The kids will continue working on their pet umbrella. Thank you, Mr. Gray