Mr. Wucherer’s Classroom News (Feb. 11th-15th) 

A Peek At The Week:  Our essential question will be, What Happens in Different Kinds of Weather?  We will introduce the new vocabulary words; predict, temperature, drought, clever and storm.  Students will also read fantasy stories, informational texts and folktales throughout the week!  Students will use text connections, visualization strategies and sequencing details to help comprehend the stories.  We will be reviewing nouns and writing personal narratives to tell the class about ourselves.  Students will be introduced to speech bubbles and how to use them.  Students will continue to write sight words in their stories, and focus on the new words added to our word wall.   Math will be busy reviewing a number mind game, measurement, writing numbers 0-100, telling time to the half hour, adding/adding/adding, patterning and dividing things in half!  We will also be celebrating our 100th Day of School with fun activities around the number 100!  In Science we will make plywood and particle board.  We will also be sanding wood. 

Looking Ahead:  Our essential question for the week will be, How can you stay safe in bad weather?  New vocab. Words to be discussed are; safe, prepare, notice, celebration and enough.  Students will also review all the letter sounds and learn about the short e sound.  We will continue to blend letters together to make words.  We will continue to work on the ir, ur, or ar and er sounds as well.  We will review what nouns are and work to write more clearly and with a voice.  We will also create a weather report during writer’s workshop.   Students will work on making connections in our reading to better comprehend what they are learning about in the informational texts we cover.  Students will practice and take the Aa-Zz writing test.  Students that need to retake the writing to 100 test will also be busy this week reviewing their number patterns on the hundred chart!  We also will be continuing to work on classifying/sorting objects by different attributes and adding more numbers together.  Students will all review the game What’s My Rule, What Number am I thinking about on the 100 Chart, IXL Math Word Problems and a tally and count lesson!  We will be starting our Paper Unit in Science. 

Reminders:   

Monday, Feb. 18th NO SCHOOL 

Tuesday, February 21st and 26thth:  Conferences  

Help Wanted:     Please keep working on the Feb. learning packets that came home last week. 

Sharing:  Can you write/create an adding or subtraction story problem to share with the class?  Please try to create one and we will see if your friends can solve the problem!! 

Special Note:   Please continue to work on the sheet of letters, sight words, number recognition and counting ect. I sent it home a few weeks ago  .  

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