Language Arts- This week we read "The Dream Catcher", "Yoon and the Jade Bracelet", which are realistic fiction stories, and "Family Traditions". Each story teaches about culture and tradition.  These stories focused on the essential question, What can traditions teach you about cultures?  We worked on locating text evidence, learned new vocabulary, talked about story sequencing and practiced visualizing a story. We also worked on types of sentences and short vowel sounds.  In writing we worked on writing summaries for the sequence of our story, wrote in our weekly journals, and continued to work on our friendly letter.  We will finish up with week 2 of unit 1 on Monday and then begin our new story on Tuesday.  

Math- This week we worked on learning our math facts.  We talked about patterns that we found when multiplying by 0, 2, 5, 9, and 10's.  We continued to talk about the commutative property and introduced the identity property as well as the zero property.  Monday will be our review for this topic and we will be assessing over it on Tuesday.  I will send home the review for the test on Monday, please have your children work through each problem thoughtfully.  

Social Studies- This week we are continuing of Government unit and discussed laws and the purpose for them.  Children each received a law to discuss with their partners and had to write about the benefits of that law.  We also discussed doing right as a citizen, working out a plan and putting it into action to help another individual.

On Thursday I sent home Powerschool passwords and a paper on how to sync with other family members account.  The passwords/usernames are also located in their planners.  Have a nice weekend.