Week of October 14th

    I hope you were able to enjoy time with your family this weekend. We spent the weekend in Rochester with my parents. Don't forget our first parent conference day is this Thursday. We will be dismissing the students at 11:45.

This week in...

Reading Workshop...

we will continue our character study. We are learning how we can formulate opinions about the characters we read, however, we must back our opinions with textual evidence. We have been reading from Charlotte's Web by E.B. White as a class. As we've been reading, we've been realizing how much depth each character has and we have been surprised to find that Wilbur really isn't as likeable as we originally thought.

Writing Workshop...

we will learn how to edit our writing as we're writing and how this is an important skill when we write in all disciplines. We will also choose a seed idea. This seed idea will be a small moment that we will work on and take it through the writing process.

Math...

we will look at subtracting greater numbers with regrouping and subtracting across zeroes. We will also learn a new problem solving strategy: drawing a picture. Even though we are finished with our fact quizzes, it is important to continue to practice facts. W

Science...

we will look at the parts of a flower and closely observe how our flowers on our plants change as it continues through its life cycle. This week we may even be able to learn about pollination and get the chance to pollinate our flowers!

Social Studies...

we hope to discuss continental drift and begin looking at the different landforms that cover our globe.

Dictionary Skills...

we have been learning how to navigate through a dictionary using guide words. We will begin looking words up to learn their part of speech.

I look forward to our upcoming conferences over the next three weeks. We have a lot to cover in our 20 minutes together! Thank you for your continued support.