Sunday, November 8, 2015

Week of November 9th

   It certainly was a very busy week last week, and it looks as if it will be equally busy this week! We have the Grand Lunch Event tomorrow from 12:00-12:50. This is an opportunity for family members to eat lunch with their student and then visit the Book Fair during recess. We also have our Veteran's Assembly on Tuesday at 2:30 (please wear red, white and blue), and we have Wednesday off in honor of Veteran's Day.

Reading Workshop
    Your children are blowing me away with their insightful contributions during the end of our Character unit!!! I can't wait for you to see our final project and the depth of your child's thinking. Hopefully, we will finish this at the beginning of the week. Next up is a nonfiction unit. We will begin looking at the text features of a variety of nonfiction texts. Then we will learn how to do a close read of a text and how to make notes on text.

Writer's Workshop
    We are still working on our personal narratives. We are also writing in all subject areas. The students continue to work on writing cohesive paragraphs.

Social Studies
    We started our Ancient Egypt unit. So far we have studied the geography of the country and the importance the Nile River played on the development of this civilization. This week our focus will be on learning vocabulary. We will be reading a nonfiction book about Ancient Egypt together during the course of this unit.

Math
   Our class is rocking multiplication! We started with repeated addition, making arrays, and learning about the commutative property. This week we will write multiplication stories and use arrays to solve basic multiplication word problems. We will have a short test on these concepts this Thursday so I can assess the students understanding before moving onto learning facts. We will begin learning x2 and x5!

Science
   Our Plant Growth and Development unit is almost finished. We pollinated our plants and we are observing the development of seed pods. Be on the lookout for all of our work to come home this week!
The students pollinating our Fast Plants.






Our Halloween party! Thanks to Mrs. Godlewski for helping!






Thank you to our most recent Mystery Reader, Mrs. Mazeau!


My boys, Cole (viking) and Grant (doctor) on Halloween.


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