This week we have a visiting author, a buddy project, a Valentine's Day celebration, the Gently Used Book Sale and a Mystery Reader plus all of our regular academics! Good thing next week is February Break! I think we will all need a rest.
We have finished our mystery unit in reading. The students did some wonderful work during whole class instruction and in book groups. This week we will begin looking at biographies together as a whole class. Book groups will work on reading short texts and identifying the main idea.
We will continue to work on division in math this week. The students will continue to practice relating multiplication to division and lots of problem solving. Keep practicing those facts at home! I have seen some excellent progress this last week and I can tell you are working hard. Thank you!
Our research of the Solar System has just begun. We will be working hard on this throughout the week. Each student has a series of questions for each planet that they are researching. We are using both printed and online sources for our research.
In writing, the students are working on drafting their informational piece. The students have organized their ideas into chapters and then used subtitles within the chapters. They sure are experts on non-fiction!
This past week we focused our word work on base words, prefixes, and suffixes. We will continue to work on this, and expand our work to include root words and their meanings. This would be a wonderful conversation to have at home. The students were very interested in the origins of root words! If their spelling notebook is at home right now you may want to take a peek in the word work section to see what we did together last week!
Some important information and upcoming dates:
Monday, February 11th: visting author- Steve "The Dirtmeister" Tomecek
Thursday, February 14th: Valentine's Day- We will celebrate in class!
Friday, February 15th: Gently Used Book Sale- We will go at 9:50 am
Saturday, February 16th: Applebee's Pancake Breakfast 8-10 am
Have a wonderful week!
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