In our Reading block we have been working on a
variety of strategies that good readers use.
Throughout the year you may hear your child refer to the acronym
“CAFÉ.” CAFÉ stands for
C
- Comprehension (understanding
what you read)
A -
Accuracy (reading the words correctly)
F -
Fluency (reading accurately with expression)
E -
Expand Vocabulary (knowing, finding, and using interesting
words)
We
will be using the CAFE menu to learn reading strategies based on the Common
Core standards that will help us become better readers. To date, we have worked on Choosing Just Right Books, Making
Connections, Predicting, Visualization, Voracious Reading, Check for
Understanding and Summarizing. Through a mini lesson and mentor text, we
learn about and practice each new strategy.
In math class we have covered many skills during our
focus on place value. Some of these
include:
- Reading/writing whole numbers to the trillions
- Reading/writing decimals to the thousandths
- Comparing whole numbers/decimals using <, >, and =
- Ordering decimals and determining the least/greatest decimal within a list
- Expanded notation
- Adding whole numbers/decimals using the U.S. standard algorithm
We continue to watch our monarch caterpillar,
recording observations in a journal. The
class has been reading, An Extraordinary
Life: The Story of a Monarch Butterfly by
Laurence Pringle. This narrative
captures the story of one monarch’s journey through migration across a
continent. The chapters we have read so
far covers the caterpillar (Danaus) from her hatching on a single milkweed leaf
in a Massachusetts hayfield and has continued through her metamorphosis into a
butterfly. We have also heard about her journey south.
On Tuesday we watched a short movie about Monarchs and
their amazing migration journey.
Thanks to all that participated in our Solmate sock
fundraiser. We are currently working to
organize the sales and place the order with Solmate. More to come on when we can expect to receive
the orders.
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