November 22nd

Dear Families,

Thank you for coming in for conferences last week. I enjoyed talking with all of you and sharing your child's successes!

 

Reminders:

November 23: Thanksgiving Multicultural Feast  (See note for more details)

November 25-29: No school for Thanksgiving Break

 

Language Arts:

Reading Workshop, This week we continued to read carefully in order to notice character changes through their emotions throughout the text. Next week we will start to learn the reading strategies we will use to talk in book clubs!

 

Word Work: In word work, we worked on the long /u/ sound including words with ui, u_e  and oo .  It is very helpful to point these types of words out to your child when reading with him/her at home.  Practice spelling some words with these patterns. 

 

Writing Workshop: This week we read mentor texts to help us see craft in writing.  Students continued the revision process and chose a piece of writing to edit and publish.

 

Math

This past week, we finished up Unit 3, Subtraction Strategies. When we get back from break, we will begin Unit 4 Place Value and Measurement. 

 

Science and Social Studies

This week students started learning about landforms.  They started researching to become experts on landforms. We'll start researching specific landforms and begin to work on presentations.

 

Remember that we only have school Monday and Tuesday of this week, then we're off for Thanksgiving break. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!