We have an exciting week of learning ahead of us!
The students have been working with a reading partner for a few weeks, and they have been allowed to choose the book they read during reader's workshop. On Monday, the students will be assigned a book on or slightly above their reading level. Their partner will have the same book. Our instruction this week will revolve around how to figure out unknown words, figurative language, and how to support a partner through book talks. We will also talk about "grit", and how we can all become better readers by applying some extra effort, or grit, when we read.
Please encourage your child to choose appropriate books when reading at home. Also, I would love to see the students choose to read more than the assigned 100 mins a week.
Writer's Workshop
The students have organized their stories, and we will be drafting this week. As the students draft we will work on revising when our storyteller voice becomes a news reporter's voice. We have been working on learning to write in paragraphs. Last week we worked on writing topic sentences with a subject (the big idea) and a focus (a small topic within the big idea). We will continue to work on topic sentences, and also writing cohesive paragraphs. Hopefully, our Friday Letters will begin to look much more organized over the next few weeks.
Math
Our new unit is Adding and Subtracting with regrouping. We will spend a few days working on adding 3-digit numbers, and 3 or more numbers. Then we will work on subtracting 3-digit numbers. This will include regrouping over zeroes. Please continue to practice addition and subtraction facts to increase your child's speed and accuracy. Multiplication is just around the corner!!!
Science
Our plant unit is wrapping up. The students pollinated their flowers last week with real bees! This week we will observe our plants as they grow seed pods. We will continue to record our observations in our plant logs.
Social Studies
We are beginning a unit on Ancient Egypt. This week we will learn about the geography of Egypt and how it led to the development of this ancient society. We will be reading a nonfiction chapter book about Ancient Egypt to support our learning during this unit.
Vocabulary
I have begun to introduce 4 vocabulary words per week to the class. We are discussing the meaning of these words in class, and using them in sentences. Our homework on Mondays will be to use the 4 words in a paragraph. This homework will begin tomorrow night. We will go over how to complete the homework in great detail tomorrow in class.
Other Important Reminders:
-A current event calendar went home last week. We did one together as a class last week. If you have any questions about the assignment please contact me. The assignment is due on the day your child's name appears on the calendar. We will be writing who is due each day in the steno pad.
-Our last math test (chapter 2) came home last week for a signature. This was corrected in class. The scores overall were fantastic, mostly just silly mistakes.
-Our spelling list this week is a cumulative list of our first four units. The students will not need to write sentences for the quiz. Any word misspelled on the quiz will become a spelling word again.
-Our class Halloween party will be this Friday at 2:15. If you signed up to bring in a treat Mrs. Mash emailed you a reminder last week.
Last week we used a gigantic traveling map of NY state to find landmarks in our state. The students had a ton of fun!
Thank you to our Mystery Reader Caitlin, Emilie's sister!
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