Hey Mr. Gray

Dear Families of Room F1,

We’re going to have a great upcoming week. Below is a short description of what’s coming up and important links and/or announcements:

Watch These Announcements on Video Here

Mr. Gray’s Class Podcast

Class Website

Reader’s

Workshop

The students will spend the week reading for fun and working on a character project.

Writer’s

Workshop

The kids will be finishing their poetry project and making their own board game!

Math

What happened to math class?

The kids will spend the week reviewing math concepts from earlier this year and playing math games.

Social

Studies

Nothing this week.

Science

The kids will continue their weather diaries.

Thank you,

Mr. Gray

Dear Families of Room F1,

We’re going to have a great upcoming week. Below is a short description of what’s coming up and important links and/or announcements:

Watch These Announcements on Video Here

Mr. Gray’s Class Podcast

Class Website

Reader’s

Workshop

The students will spend the week reading for fun and working on a character project.

Writer’s

Workshop

The kids will finish publishing their animal information books and work on a short poetry project.

Math

What happened to math class?

We start a new mini-unit on mass and volume. We will start by studying the meaning of mass and then compare objects that measure in grams and objects that measure in kilograms.

Social

Studies

The kids will investigate rules, rights, and laws. We will begin our study of “citizenship” and what it means to be a good citizen.

Science

We will continue our weather unit by what it means to be a meteorologist. We will also study the tools of weather data collection by exploring thermometers and start a weather diary.

Thank you,

Mr. Gray

Dear Families of Room F1,

We’re going to have a great upcoming week. Below is a short description of what’s coming up and important links and/or announcements:

Watch These Announcements on Video Here

Mr. Gray’s Class Podcast

Class Website

Reader’s

Workshop

The students will spend the week researching an animal of their choice. They will study how to build up vocabulary and talk with the lingo of experts and how to discuss our topic with zeal for a new animal or animals of their choice both in class and with library books.

Writer’s

Workshop

The kids will wrap up our writing about research unit going along with our reading unit. They will draft and write all about an animal or multiple animals.

Math

What happened to math class?

We start a finish unit on telling time intervals (ex. PE started at 10:45 and ended at 11:19, how many minutes was PE). We practice solving problems using t-charts and then students will choose strategies that work the best for them. We will also ask students to make up their own problems and have other students solve them.

Social

Studies

The kids will investigate rules, rights, and laws. We will begin our study of “citizenship” and what it means to be a good citizen.

Science

We will continue our weather unit by what it means to be a meteorologist. We will also study the tools of weather data collection by exploring thermometers.

Thank you,

Mr. Gray

Dear Families of Room F1,

We’re going to have a great upcoming week. Below is a short description of what’s coming up and important links and/or announcements:

Watch These Announcements on Video Here

Mr. Gray’s Class Podcast

Class Website

Reader’s

Workshop

We are continuing our researching animals unit. We are practicing different ways to research and gather information about a topic. This week we will study how to build up vocabulary and talk with the lingo of experts and how to discuss our topic with zeal for a new animal.

Writer’s

Workshop

The kids will continue our writing about research unit going along with our reading unit. This week the kids will teach others about their animal as a way to get ready to write, discuss table of contents and chapter organization and reread their drafts to add more for a new animal.

Math

What happened to math class?

We start a new unit on telling time intervals (ex. PE started at 10:45 and ended at 11:19, how many minutes was PE). We will start by exploring time on a stopwatch and move on to reviewing time to the minute, then look at problems with time and solving those problems with number lines and t-charts.

Social

Studies

No Social Studies this week.

Science

We will continue our weather unit by studying wind and precipitation. We will look at local data for patterns.

Thank you,

Mr. Gray

Dear Families of Room F1,

We’re going to have a great upcoming week. Below is a short description of what’s coming up and important links and/or announcements:

Watch These Announcements on Video Here

Mr. Gray’s Class Podcast

Class Website

Reader’s

Workshop

We are continuing our researching animals unit. We are practicing different ways to research and gather information about a topic. This week we will study how to build up vocabulary and talk with the lingo of experts and how to discuss our topic with zeal for a new animal.

Writer’s

Workshop

The kids will continue our writing about research unit going along with our reading unit. This week the kids will teach others about their animal as a way to get ready to write, discuss table of contents and chapter organization and reread their drafts to add more.

Math

What happened to math class?

We will wrap up our unit on fractions by studying fractions greater than 1, fraction word problems, reviewing fractions and finally taking a fractions assessment at the end of the week.

Social

Studies

The kids will take their knowledge of the important symbols and documents of the United States and make documents and symbols that represent our classroom.

Science

We will start a new unit on weather. We will start the unit by discussing what weather is, sorting weather related vocabulary words, and learning about different kinds of clouds.

Thank you,

Mr. Gray

Dear Families of Room F1,

We’re going to have a great upcoming week. Below is a short description of what’s coming up and important links and/or announcements:

Watch These Announcements on Video Here

Mr. Gray’s Class Podcast

Class Website

Reader’s

Workshop

The kids will work together to create posters comparing and contrasting characters from different books to wrap up our Character Studies unit.

Writer’s

Workshop

The kids will publish their last essay for the baby literary essay unit. They will take all the evidence they’ve gathered from across their book to support a claim about a charter.

Math

What happened to math class?

We will continue our fractions unit by studying how to compare fractions and looking at fractions greater than 1.

Social

Studies

We will wrap up the current chapter by studying some of the documents and symbols that bring us together as Americans.

Science

No science this week.

Thank you,

Mr. Gray

Dear Families of Room F1,

We’re going to have a great upcoming week. Below is a short description of what’s coming up and important links and/or announcements:

Watch These Announcements on Video Here

Mr. Gray’s Class Podcast

Class Website

Reader’s

Workshop

The kids will continue to study the character’s journey. We will learn to pay close attention to the climax of the story, noticing how the main character is tested and we’ll discuss how characters resolve big trouble.

Writer’s

Workshop

The kids will work on their next literary essay. This time, students will grow an idea from their own story, find evidence, and then write an essay. Among other things, we will use mentor texts to improve our writing and really discuss how to use paragraphs (and make sure we are using paragraphs).

Math

What happened to math class?

We will wrap up our study of division (for the moment) and celebrate the 100th day of school (Tuesday) with a math game!

Social

Studies

We will shift our focus from the federal government to the government of the state of California.

Science

The kids will continue to watch the caterpillars change and keep track of that change.

Thank you,

Mr. Gray

Dear Families of Room F1,

We’re going to have a great upcoming week. Below is a short description of what’s coming up and important links and/or announcements:

Watch These Announcements on Video Here

Mr. Gray’s Class Podcast

Class Website

Reader’s

Workshop

We will continue our character studies unit. The kids will follow a character’s journey by:

Noticing that stories are shaped like mountains and we can watch characters go up and down, expecting characters to face and react to trouble, noticing the roles of secondary characters and noticing the role of illustrations in stories.

Writer’s

Workshop

The students will publish their first literary essay about the story, Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson.

Math

What happened to math class?

The students will continue our exploration of division specifically looking at how division and multiplication are related through fact families and properties.

Social

Studies

We’ll review the structure of the federal government looking at the three branches of government and the role of each branch.

Science

The kids will continue keeping track of the changes that the caterpillars are undergoing and we will continue to study the life cycle of butterflies.

Thank you,

Mr. Gray

Dear Families of Room F1,

We’re going to have a great upcoming week. Below is a short description of what’s coming up and important links and/or announcements:

Watch These Announcements on Video Here

Mr. Gray’s Class Podcast

Class Website

Reader’s

Workshop

We will continue our character studies unit. The kids will start to grow ideas about characters and notice patterns with characters.

Writer’s

Workshop

We will continue our Baby Literary Essay Unit. The kids will write 2 more drafts about the book Each Kindness and we will try to study and add transitional phrases to help frame evidence.

Math

What happened to math class?

We will move on to our next unit: Division. We will study division as fair sharing/equal groups and we will go outside and practice division as jumps on a number line.

Social

Studies

We will look at the basic structure of the federal government.

Science

Our shipment is on hold so we will study the life cycle of plants. Later we will study the life cycle of animals and then compare their life cycles.

Thank you,

Mr. Gray

Dear Families of Room F1,

We’re going to have a great upcoming week. Below is a short description of what’s coming up and important links and/or announcements:

Watch These Announcements on Video Here

Mr. Gray’s Class Podcast

Class Website

Reader’s

Workshop

We will start our next Reading Unit: Character Studies. Over the coming weeks the kids will get to know the character like a friend, read in book clubs,  follow the character’s journey, and compare and contrast characters across books. Next week we will start by noticing how a new character talks and acts and asking ourselves “What is my character like?”

Writer’s

Workshop

We will finish publishing our piece of creative writing and start our next unit: Baby Literary Essay. The Literary Essay is something that will be revisited later in elementary school, middle school, and you might remember it from high school. This is an introductory version of that where students will grow ideas about characters and use evidence from the book to defend their position. We will start next week by coming up with some ideas about characters (and possibly lesson or themes).

Math

What happened to math class?

We will continue our study of Area and Perimeter by spending time inside and outside our classroom measuring quadrilaterals and finding the area and perimeter of them. We may wrap up this unit with a quiz.

Social

Studies

The kids will start our next unit learning about government. We will start by discussing what jobs exist in local government and next week get into the basic structure of the federal government.

Science

This is yet to be determined depending on a shipment. We will soon be studying some creatures up close and personal!