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This weekly newsletter from Ms. Devine's classroom provides updates on the learning targets and activities from the past week. In language arts, students reviewed short vowel sounds, plural endings, sight words and spelling. They also discussed character and setting. In writing, students wrote two-line poems describing animals using descriptive words and phrases. In math, students began learning about unknown numbers in addition and subtraction, including how to write and solve equations with unknown values. The class also learned about spiders through reading, crafts and observing a tarantula.

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Webpage: October 31, 2018: Dates To Remember

This weekly newsletter from Ms. Devine's classroom provides updates on the learning targets and activities from the past week. In language arts, students reviewed short vowel sounds, plural endings, sight words and spelling. They also discussed character and setting. In writing, students wrote two-line poems describing animals using descriptive words and phrases. In math, students began learning about unknown numbers in addition and subtraction, including how to write and solve equations with unknown values. The class also learned about spiders through reading, crafts and observing a tarantula.

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Classroom Ph: 786-1800: ext. 3227, e-mail: devinev@westottawa.

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Webpage: msdevinesclass.com October 31, 2018

Reading/Language Arts
In Language Arts our learning targets this week have included:
*review of the short “o” vowel sound
Dates to Remember *”s” plural ending for more than 1
*Sight word review
Oct. 31 End of 1st Quarter *blending sounds
Nov. 1 No School, Teacher in- * SPELLING is going well! We continue to practice in some way everyday!
service day *recognizing predicates as a group of words that describe what the subject is
Nov.7 Progress Reports on-line doing.
Nov. 27-29 No *character & setting – We are again discussing character & setting. The
School/Thanksgiving characters are who the story is about and the setting is where the story takes
place. We are often reading selections where the setting is more than 1
place.
In writing this week we we wrote 2-line poem. We learned to make a web
What’s New: of describing words or phrases about an animal of our choice. We then wrote
two 1-line sentences using our describing words. We even practiced making
some revisions to make them more descriptive. Finally, a few of us tried to
On the website:
make them rhyme!
*This week’s newsletter
*Calendar
*Spirit Week Pictures Math Spider Week
*Apple Orchard Pictures In Math this week we began Unit 3,
*FIRE STATION Pictures Unknown Numbers in Addition & This week we have been
Subtraction. Our learning targets have having some fun learning about
included: spiders. We have:
Special Notes:
*relating partners & totals and finding *read many books
*Parent Teacher Conferences: Thank
the unknown partner *completed a Spider Shape
you for the awesome parent teacher
*solving story problems with unknown Book
conferences.
partners *graphed how our class feels
*solving equations with unknown about spiders
partners. *created a Spider Facts
penmanship book
We have very specific steps for *observed a real tarantula that
solving story problems! belongs to Mr. Heyboer. It
1. Read it Carefully came to visit for a day. We
2. Circle the 2 known #’s even saw its molted skin!
3. Think: do I add/subtract. Will I *watched Magic School Bus
have more or less? Spins a Web!
4. Write an equation that includes
Thanks to Mrs. Scholten for5 helping
a box for the number I don’t
us with Math Centers!
know.
5. Solve
6. Show the answer & a label to
tell what we are talking about!

The biggest problem with number


stories is not wrong math but wrong
equations!

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