***In order to help kick off CISD's "Read for a Better Life" program, we will be sending home an invitation in your child's Tuesday folder asking volunteers to come and read to our class the following week. The program officially starts up the week of Sept. 19th - 23rd, but we wanted to go ahead and let parents know a week in advance in case they'd like to make arrangements to come in and read! Your child will also be bringing home a "Read with Me Club" folder this week which is another incentive to encourage children and their parents to read together. Readers are leaders!
This week in math we will be learning about temperature. We will take a daily temperature reading and use that data to create a temperature graph. Students will realize that temperature is a vertical number line and will explore the way to read the temperature on a thermometer. Some thermometers count by 1's, 2's, and 10's. If you have a thermometer outside your house try to take a temperature reading each night and discuss with your child how you determined the temperature.
In science, we will continue our unit on matter. We are continuing to explore the properties of matter. On Tuesday we will perform a discovery lab with water. ***Be sure and ask your child that afternoon what kind of lab they did in science and what they learned about water.
This week in social studies we will finish our unit of learning all about our national symbols. We have learned about the Bald Eagle, Statue of Liberty, Uncle Sam, the United States Flag, and the Liberty Bell. Your child should be able to tell you something about each of these symbols. Our next study in social studies will be learning about our great state of Texas. Students will learn some important symbols of our state. We will discuss the Texas Flag, tree, flower, song, small mammal, and our state's nickname.
We'll be reading stories (both non-fiction and fiction)about hedgehogs this week. One of the fiction stories we'll read is called "Hedgehog Bakes a Cake". This a great story to teach sequencing and following steps in a process. We'll be back on a regular homework routine this week so watch for your child's spelling spirals to come home for Monday night's homework. All of our grandparent letters have been written and mailed so we will be anxiously awaiting the arrival of their letters back to us here at school.
In Writer's Workshop this week we will work on creating interesting sentences in our writing and planning out the details that we include in our stories. We will also practice storytelling and writing with a partner in class. Our word study/spelling this week will focus on words with the short o sound.
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