Room 9 Update

Dear Room 5 Families,

Here's an update to let you know what we have been up to in room 9!

Reading:

We started our unit on inferring by reading poetry and short passages. We know that authors and poets don't always tell us directly what happening in the text, but instead leave clues. We've been using our background knowledge and clues form the text to stop and think about what is probably true. 

Writing:

We've been writing poems. Before starting we read poems to determine how they differ from other types of writing we've been doing this year. One thing we noticed was that poets use "poet's eyes" to see and think about things in a new way.

Here's en example of a poem we read in class:

Pencil Sharpener
(by Zoe Ryder White )

I think there are a hundred bees
inside the pencil sharpener
and they buzz
and buzz
and buzz
until my point
is sharp!


We had fun writing poems about ordinary objects we use in the classroom such as scissors and holes punchers. Imagining them in a new way mades the poems about these objects interesting.

Math:

We are finishing up our unit on two-digit addition and subtraction. Students have worked hard to solve problems using more than one strategy and showing their work clearly in both numbers and words. Student have also solved different types of words problems including one step and two step word problems.

Social Studies:

Last week we started learning about maps and globes. We located the seven continents on both a map and globe. We know that a continent is a large area of land. 


Spring conferences: Conferences start Wednesday, March 11th. Please let me know if you have any questions and/or if you did not receive the email that included the google sign-up form. I look forward to meeting with you.