94- Weekly Updates (September 27-October 1, 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 I look forward to chatting with you on Zoom for our fall conference. If you have something specific you’d like to talk about that you didn’t write on your original sign-up please email me ahead of time. I hope to see parents and students on the zoom call. Zoom link for conferences: tinyurl.com/grayzoom6 Passcode: gray IPD Safety Video (We watched this in class on Friday, September 24) October 4th-8th all minimum days except Tuesday where there is no school. October 6th is picture day! Chipotle Fundraiser September 28 4-8pm A note from our PTA president about the Book Vending Machine (the kids are ecstatic about this!) Reader’s Workshop We will continue our first reading unit. We are almost finished with our first fiction reading unit. First the kids will take a reading assessment on Monday using a short story to check their progress. Then, as we continue through the week, the kids will climb the hurdle of hard words by learning some strategies for figuring out their meaning: chunking the words, using context clues, and going over some figurative language phrases. They will continue the things we have been working on including making mental movies, predicting, and retelling. Writer’s Workshop The students will celebrate their 2 published works and then we will move on to the last part of our first writing unit. The challenge as they write their last few drafts and last published piece of this unit will be to try to focus in on a moment that was a real problem and show how the problem was overcome. Also, the kids are going to be more in charge of their writing. They will have to figure out what they need to do to improve and actually do it. Math What happened to math class? The kids will start a unit on multiplication. We will start by thinking about groups of things. We will count by 10s and 5s and discuss subitizing. Social Studies The kids will go over our last lesson of Chapter 1 which is about ecosystems and the resources California uses. After that we will review what we’ve learned and make something that represents the geographical features, regions and ecosystems of California. Science The kids will continue working on their pet umbrella with their group. They might present their project if we have time. Thank you, Mr. Gray