What better way to kickoff March than Dr. Seuss Read Across America Day?! In March we can expect:
Beginning our unit on addition and subtraction! The students will understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from. What you can do at home: Create real life situations in which students would need to add and subtract. For example, when setting the table, you could say, “We need five plates. I have already set two out. How many more do I need?” A new IB unit! For our inquiry into Science we will study living and non-living and plants and animals. Our new IB unit will be “Sharing the Planet”. The central idea is that people have a responsibility to share and conserve resources in order to help all living things thrive. We will think, question, and observe environmental issues and take action to solve these problems. Our students will begin to research animals, learn about animal parents and their offspring as well as compare and contrast different animal species. Our “How-to” writing unit! Writers will practice brainstorming their ideas, practice telling their steps across fingers, and putting it onto paper with transition words. Students will focus on drawing diagrams, using labels, and continuing to add details. Students will also practice writing introduction pages to grab their reader’s attention. Non-fiction books! For our inquiry into Reading we will continue our unit on learn about the world books (non-fiction books). We will be working on learning information from the pictures and the words and also wondering and asking questions as we read. Students will work with partners to practice re-telling their books like they are a teacher! As we come to words that students aren’t familiar with, we will work on strategies that help us figure out the meaning of unknown words.
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