Important Dates:
Friday, June 15th- Highland Playground Tuesday, June 18th- LAST DAY! Walking field trip to Main St. Ice Cream |
The holiday season is one of my favorites in the classroom as we are able to experience and do so many fun things! This week we created Thankful turkeys and took time to reflect on all that we have in this world that we easily take for granted (like toilet paper-haha). We also took our walking field trip to the Dollar Store to purchase items for donating to the High School's Thanksgiving Food Drive. This was a great opportunity for the students to experience what using their own money to do something for someone else feels like - it feels fulfilling!
Hopefully all of you received the automated messages from the District regarding our calendar changes due to new State Mandates. You can find a list of these changes here. Due to these changes to the days in December, many conferences needed to be rescheduled. I have deleted the former Signup Genius and created a new one. Please us the link about to sign up for a new conference time if your's was one that was affected. Also, keep in mind that I am very willing to do phone conferences if you'd prefer. Thanks! Next week is a VERY short week with only two school days. Reading: Students practiced the reading skill of author's purpose this week. We also continued to focus on main idea, what a story's mostly about, and using our beginning, middle, ending sound skills. Math: Word Problems Students are doing well with their new skill of solving double-digit equations. They are using the taught skills well. Writing We created thankful turkeys, deciding on things we are thankful for and expanding upon them. Science: Matter Students began their matter unit this week. We begin this unit with exploring solids and the materials used to build a structure, as well as the components of a strong structure. Social Studies: Thanksgiving This week we read about and discussed the first Thanksgiving. We discussed the gratitude the Pilgrims and Native Americans showed to one another. We briefly went over how historians now believe this story is a myth, but one we should and enjoy and encourage us to help others.
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We survived Halloween and all the craziness that comes with it! Students enjoyed a fabulous party on Tuesday thrown by our homeroom parents. Thank you to all who donated items and their time for the party!
We are looking forward to the school's author visit next Tuesday. It's hard to believe that we are already 3 days deep into November. This means that December is sneaking up on us and conferences will be here before we know it. Please use this link to sign up for a conference time. If these times do not work for you, or a phone conference would be better, please let me know and we can try to work something out. Reading: Students will be taking their first reading benchmark throughout next week. We have been practicing the skill of going back and underlining where in a passage we find the answer to given questions. Math: Word Problems Students reviewed for and took their Unit 1 math test. This will be sent home next week. Please sign and return it. Writing: Personal Narrative We are wrapping up our personal narratives through completing our books. Students continue to practice their paragraph writing skill of: topic sentence, detail sentences, and closing sentence. This should be used regularly in their formal writing. Science: Balancing and Weighing Students wrapped up balancing and weighing through balancing the witch and her animal friends on a balance. It was a great creative thinking activity! |