This Week in Room 8 (4/3 to 4/7)

Welcome Back!

I hope everyone had a nice, relaxing Spring Break. I was very thankful to spend some time with my Grandpa back in Indiana before he passed.

ELA:
This week we begin our Cinderella unit. We will be reading versions of Cinderella from all over the world. This week we will read versions from France and Ireland. As we read, we will make connections, compare and contrast, and identify key details in the text. We will also make observations from the common key elements in fairy tales.

We will also work on the following skills:

• reviewing possessive pronouns
• compound nouns
• categorizing and labeling items
• distinguishing shades of meaning among verbs (look, peek, glance, stare, scowl) and adjectives of differing intensity (large, gigantic)

MATH:

We will continue to work on the following skills at our "just right" levels:

• telling time to the hour, half-hour (quarter-hour, five minutes, and exact time)
• fractions
• composing 3-D shapes
• adding and subtracting within 100 (and beyond)

Science:

This week we begin our new unit on Sky Patterns. We will be answering the following questions:

• What do you see in the sky?
• Where is the sun in the sky?
• How long is the sun in the sky?