St. Giles School

St. Giles School

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1-15-16 Newsletter

RECAP OF OUR WEEK A GLIMPSE AT NEXT WEEK

Math – Place Value

This week we have been working on Place Value through a few different objectives including Counting Groups of Tens, Using Dimes to Count By Tens and Making Groups of Ten & Some More.

Students have also had to extend their thinking/understanding through questions such as…

  • If 18 is the same as 1 ten and 8 more, what number would 2 tens and 3 more be? etc.
  • How many dimes is the same as 90 cents? How many pennies is the same as 7 dimes? etc 
  • Francesca has 6 dimes. Her mom gave her 3 more dimes. How many dimes does she have now? How much is that in cents? etc.

Next Week – We will continue working on Place Value (Making a Table to Solve Problems, Writing Numbers to 100 in Different Ways, Identifying Numbers that are 10 More and 10 Less than a Given Number)

Religion – Peace Week: We read Todd Parr’s Peace Book and brainstormed with partners what “Peace” means to us. We then wrote about ways we each can be peace-makers. `

Language Arts –

Phonics – 1. Words That End with ng and nk and 2. Compound Words

Next Week – 1. Ending -es and Plural -es (fixes, wishes, etc.) and 2. Words with r-Controlled vowel o (more, short, etc.)

Sight Words (aka Sight Words/Word Wall Words) – any, enough, ever, every, own, sure, were

Next Week -away, car, friends, house, our, school, very

Grammar – Verbs That Add -s (“Eats” and “swims”, for example show what one person, animal, or thing is doing now.)

Next Week – Verbs That Do Not Add -s at the End (“Pack” and “load”, for example, tell what two or more people, animals, or things do now.)

Fluency – Pay Attention to Punctuation

Next Week – Pay Attention to Punctuation

Comprehension Strategy – Plot (what happens in a story & the order in which it happens/beginning, middle, end)

Next Week – Theme (the “big idea” in a story)

Social Studies – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Civil Rights

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