December 1st-December 5th

We had a short, but fun week! Students enjoyed a Thanksgiving scavenger hunt and they had fun planning Thanksgiving meals. They had to decide on a menu and then they used Hannaford flyers to calculate the cost! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

This week...

Reading
We will continue the character unit. Students are doing a buddy read of a book and examining the main character. We finished The Miraculous Journey of Edward Toulane and wrote about how the main character changed throughout the book.

Writing
We will start the informational writing unit this week. We will start with a pre-assessment so We can see what the students already know about informational writing. Then we will spend time reading a variety of non-fiction books in preparation for choosing a topic.

Math
We will continue the multiplication unit. We will be going over the 0s and 1s, 3s and 6s. Please make sure your child is practicing on xtramath 3 times a week. I have updated it so everyone should have multiplication as part of their practice.

Science/Social Studies
We will finish up the plant unit by examining the pods and breaking them open to see the seeds. In social studies, we will be studying economy by looking at wants and needs, scarcity and abundance and natural resources.

November 24th-November 25th

Thanks to everyone who joined us for American Education Week. It was great to have so many family members here to see what the class has been working on! There will be no homework this week because of Thanksgiving break. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!

Reminders:
No School on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

Reading
We are working with reading buddies as we continue the character unit. Students are reading books together and spending time discussing and writing about the main character. They are reading a variety of titles and are doing a great job with this! We will also be finishing the read aloud, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Toulane. This book has really shown students the idea of character growth and change!

Math
We are continuing Unit 5, Multiplication Facts. We have gone over the 2s, 5s, and 10s and will do the 4s this week.

Writing
We finished the narrative unit and students did a great job! We will do a final post assessment this week and will start informational writing next week.

Science/Social Studies
In Science, we will be finishing up the plant unit. In Social Studies, we will be learning about wants and needs, abundance and scarcity and natural resources.

November 17th-November 21st

We had a great week! Our flowers have blossomed and we learned about pollination. Students used dried bees to pollinate their flowers. We spent more time in Starlab and reviewed the fall constellations and learned about the winter constellations. We enjoyed the Veteran's Day Assembly. Alex's dad spoke and Mr. Sieme (Mrs. Sieme's husband) played America the Beautiful. Check out the pictures below!

Reminders:

November 17th-21st is American Education Week. Please join us on Friday 11/21 from 1-2 to visit Starlab and celebrate the end of our Narrative Writing Unit! You are also welcome to join your child for lunch any day next week from 11:30-11:50.

Reading

We are continuing work on the character unit. We spent time last week discussing character traits. Students created very nice pictures of their names with character traits that describe them. We looked at the character of Edward Toulane from our read aloud and spent time discussing his character traits at the beginning of the book and the new character traits we are seeing as Edward changes in the book. Students will think about character traits of the characters in their books this week.

Writing

We will be finishing up the personal narrative unit. Last week, students spent time adding details and trying to balance dialogue, action and inner thoughts. We also worked on punctuating dialogue correctly with quotation marks and commas. This week, we will work on endings and write final drafts! We will be celebrating the end of this unit on Friday. We hope you can join us!

Math

We are finishing up Unit 4-Multiplication Meanings. We'll have a quiz on Tuesday. Then we'll start Unit 5-Multiplication Facts. I will be adding multiplication to all students' xtramath accounts so they can begin practicing those facts.

Science/Social Studies

In science, we will be going back into Starlab to learn about winter constellations and how to use a star map. We will also continue the plant unit by pollinating. In social studies, we will continue a unit on the United States.

November 10th-November 14th

It's hard to believe that we are already in November! We had another great week!

Payton was Student of the Week and her dad came in for snack and shared some interesting books from his travels.

Reminders:

Wear red, white and blue on Monday for the Veteran's Day Assembly

No School on Tuesday 11/11 in honor of Veteran's Day

Friday 11/21 American Education Week Classroom Visit 1-2

This week...

Reading

We are continuing the character unit. We finished Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin. We studied the character of Minli and spent time discussing and writing about her choices and what these choices told us about her character. We started a new read aloud called The Miraculous Journey of Edward Toulane by Kate DiCamillo. 

Writing

Students are continuing to write their second personal narrative. We spent time last week learning about adjectives and students are trying to make their writing more detailed and interesting by adding adjectives and using strong verbs. This week, we will continue to elaborate by adding details. 

Math

We finished Unit 3 last week and started Unit 4. Unit 4 covers the meanings of multiplication, including arrays and repeated addition. This week, students will be making array cards. We will label them in school and a few sheet will be sent home to be cut out each night. A ziploc bag will be sent home to put the cards in. Please have your child cut these out each night and put them in the bag. They will bring the bag back when all of the cards have been cut out.

Science/Social Studies

We are continuing the plant unit. The plants will be flowering this week and we will begin pollinating. We will also be going back into Starlab during the next two weeks. We are finishing the geography unit and will start the United States.