Fun with 4th Grade Buddies and More!

Here are the things we worked on this week.

We learned:

• The difference between a fact and your opinion

• How to share your opinion with others- Convince your reader!

• Read books with our 4th Grade buddies

• How to use story elements to improve comprehension

• Keep track of the time and setting while reading

• Long vowel pattern CVCe

• Counting, Adding and Subtracting Groups of 10

• Learning to understand the Base 10 System

• The Sun is 93,000,000 miles away

• The Sun provides light and warmth to the Earth

Next week we will:

• Continue with Opinion Writing

• Learn to use reasons and examples to support our opinions

• Learn more about predicting in fiction books

• Practice keeping track and retelling important parts of a story

• Continue with long vowel pattern CVCe- u has been really tricky for us

• Practice our sight words - here is the list

• Focus on Place Value and how it use it to add and subtract

• Learn about the patterns in our sky- the sun rises in the east and sets in the west

Keep up the reading at home!  We are almost at 120 hours!  Sight word practice can be very helpful for a young reader to help them progress.  We are working on the first 50 sight words.   If you are interested, here is a website that has games you can make and play at home.