Sunroom
Curriculum
News
Language Arts
January
Math
2016
Happy New
Year!
Science/Social
Studies
Writing:
Over the next few weeks,
students will delve
deeper into the art of
information writing.
Before winter break,
students learned about
the power of organizing
their information into
different structures like:
boxes & bullets and pros
& cons. These structures
lead to new thinking
about their topic.
Students continue to draft
their “chapters files”
while learning to use
transitional phrases and
include text features, like
maps and diagrams. They
will start the revision
process soon.
Literacy Centers:
All of the literacy groups
are close to finishing
their first group book and
will begin a new one. We
are also still reading One
Crazy Summer for read
aloud and listening to
Ramona’s World. In
centers, we have been
working on antonyms and
synonyms. We will also
be conducting mid-year
reading assessments to
track everyone’s
progress.
rd
3 grade: Part of our math
time is devoted to learning
the 9 lines. We have imaged
the 2,3, and 4’s already and
will continue with 5-9. Each
week a new 9 lines table is
imaged while still
practicing and blending the
previous tables. They’re
also being introduced to
renaming in
multiplication(formerly
known as crossmultiplication) beginning
with double digit times
single digit multipliers.
2nd grade: Second graders
have been working
diligently learning their
math facts in the area of
subtraction. Bump & point
and mental bump and point
are specific strategies
we’ve been using in this
area. We have also been
studying money and playing
various games and setting
up shop to help reinforce
various ways to add and
make change with coins and
dollars. Subtraction with
and without renaming into
the hundreds has been an
area we have been working
on with and without the
Dienes blocks. We have also
been working on word
problems using the Guess &
Check and Make an
Organized List Strategy.
Science / Social Studies:
This month we’ll focus on
learning about specific
volcanoes such as:
Krakatoa(composite),
Paricutin (cinder cone),
Mauna Loa (shield) and
Mt. Pelee (dome).
Models, eruptions &
dioramas are to follow.
The Geology unit will end
by learning about
dinosaurs and fossilshighlighted by our UC
Berkeley Museum of
Paleontology field trip on
the 28th.
Dates to remember:
1/09- all school clean-up
1/13- class photo day
1/14- MOAD Museum Trip
1/18- MLK Jr Day –
No school
1/25- Teacher in ServiceNo school
1/28- UC Berkeley Trip
Sunroom PLAY is next
month- Thurs. Feb. 11!