Reader’s Workshop
This week we will continue to explore reading
partnerships. We will be retelling our books to our partners and learning
that readers often retell our books as a way to lay the story out for others so
we can talk it over. But we also lay it out for ourselves so we can think it
over. . We will continue to review our new vocabulary words from our text talk
book The Patchwork Quilt.
Each week we will be choosing a student to be our Reading
Test Taking Top Banana. This student is one who has used all their strategies
to become a successful test taker. Our Reading Test Taking Top Bananas this
week are Jaydn and Gabi! Way to go! We are super proud of your hard work!
Writers’
Workshop
We will continue drafting our
memoirs this week. Our focus will be on the organization of our
story. Students will be learning how to add transitional words and
phrases into their writing. We will also be working on our conclusions. Ask your child about Takeaway Endings! We will then move toward noticing our strengths
and weaknesses as writers, as we move toward the editing phase.
Skills
We will be working on list 4 of spelling this week.
Students should study and complete one of the homework options for list
4. Our quiz will be Friday. The quiz will also cover our skills topic of
the week, action verbs. Our daily skills sheet (in their ROAR folder)
will serve as their study guide.
Math Workshop
Students
are solving distance riddles in which they find pairs of 2- and 3-digit numbers
at given distances from a landmark (such as 100, 200 or 300) and determine the
difference between the numbers in each pair. We are focusing on jumping
to landmarks on the number line. Ask your child the following distance
riddle question: I am 36 more than 200. What number am I? I
am 36 less than 200. What number am I? What is the difference
between those two numbers?
There will be a Distance Riddle Quiz on
Wednesday, October 2nd. You can review Math workbook Unit 3, pages 49,
50, 51, and 57 to prepare.
Science
We are learning about matter and some of its'
properties. We have discussed matter is anything that takes up space and
has mass. Properties of matter include size, shape, color, texture, and
hardness. We are also participating in hands-on explorations to learn how
matter is measured. Properties of matter, such as mass, volume, length,
and temperature, can be measured
Social Studies
We are studying Chapter 2, Lesson
3: Communities and Resources. Please study the blue sheet to be
prepared for the quiz on Friday, October 4th.
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