Weekly Update!

This week FLEW by!!!!

We started Unit 2 in reading.  

You should have seen the Unit 1 tests come home

this week.

We will spend 4 weeks in Unit 2 working on 

reading strategies.  This week we started with analyzing character.

My favorite time of the day is read aloud time.  

We love getting LOST in a book together.

We just finished Flora and Ulysses by Kate Dicamillo

Everyone was so sad to finish that awesome book.

We are now starting the book Wonder.  

It is an amazing book about friendship and acceptance.  

It is about standing up for others!  

It is a tear-jerker, for sure!

I have encouraged your kids to dig into a great novel.

We will have a book celebration at the end of this unit (Oct. 17)

Your child will need to have finished a full novel by then, so he/she

can make an awesome project that will tell the class all about his/her book.

We are moving into multiplication and long division in math.  

These are BIG BIG BIG skills!

And......science starts next week!

We will take a break from Social Studies and work on Science for a bit.

Up first....magnets!!!!

Have a great weekend!

Social Studies

We are working in small groups to create posters and artifacts that 

represent the first people to settle in Indiana.

Here you see students synergizing to create posters.

They did the research.

They shared the jobs.

They created the posters.

Next....

They will create an artifact.

They will present to the class!!!!

Stay Tuned!

Update from Room 16!!

Hi Parents!

We have been BUSY!  

We are wrapping up our first reading unit in REACH and are trying out something new this year.  We are calling it:  Week 5.  Exciting, right?  Here is what we are planning on doing during language arts:

During reading, students are selecting a "just right book" to begin on Monday and read during class. We will apply our comprehension strategies, from Unit 1 REACH, with that book and other mentor texts.  Some of the strategies are making predictions, point of view, author's purpose and plot. I will be able to conference independently with your child to check-in throughout the week. I can't wait to see what their preference is!

For word study, we will take a break from REACH spelling lists, but will reintroduce our OG prefix and suffixes that kids have worked on in previous grades.  There will NOT be any turn in homework, but we will send home a list to work on memorizing the beginnings/endings. We have a graded activity at the end of next week to check their mastery.  We will also work on LOTS of grammar topics like types of sentences, relative pronouns, and compound subjects.

In math, we are going to be wrapping up Unit 2.  We are projecting our test date to be Tuesday, September 20th.  Study guide will be worked on next Friday, 9/16.

Students are wrapping up our first two chapters of Indiana history with a Native American project. Students will begin working in groups to focus on one Indiana tribe.  Each group will make a visual representation of the tribe, a poster, and present to the class.  Any additional support with research next week would be TERRIFIC!

Enjoy the weekend!