Reader's Workshop
This
week we continue our exploration of characters. We will be recognizing
how our personal experiences can help us understand and relate to characters on
a deeper level. It is important that students are not making superficial
connections like “I have a dog, too,” or, “I’ve been to Texas, too.” In
this unit we are pushing students to recall a time when they have experienced a
similar situation in order to draw upon their emotional memories. This
emotional connection to characters is what will help students empathize and
connect to the text. Student connections may begin, “This reminds me of…”
and should transition into, “This makes me realize…(something about the
character’s thoughts/feelings/motivations).” Brain Builders will be
coming home on Fridays and are to be turned in on Mondays for Monkey Moolah. We
encourage your child to complete these for extra reading practice!
Writer's Workshop
This
week we will finish publishing our memoirs. Students will work with a
peer and in teacher lead small groups to make necessary changes to their pieces
before we begin publishing our narratives. We will also be completing a self
reflection about our published writing. Students will note their strengths of
their pieces as well as something they can add to their narrative story next
time.
Skills
Students
should study and complete one of the homework options for list 6. Our quiz will
be Friday. The quiz will also cover our skills topic of the week, irregular
past tense verbs. Our daily skills sheet (in their ROAR folder) will
serve as their study guide. Please note that skills tests will now assess
the current skill, as well as any past skills. Skills addressed so far
include: Sentences vs fragments; Singular
vs plural nouns; Possessive nouns; Action verbs; Past,
present, future tense verbs
Math Workshop
Our
Unit 3 End of Unit Assessment is scheduled for Tuesday, October 15th.
The contents covered during this unit include understanding place value,
addition strategies, subtraction strategies, and being able to identify an
equation to match a story problem. Your child can review any of the
sheets in Unit 3 of their Math workbook or yellow packet found in their ROAR
folder to prepare.
Our
next unit, beginning Wednesday, will focus on objects that come in groups, skip
counting, and arrays to build an understanding of multiplication and
division.
Science
Science
We
are studying the three states of matter, solid, liquid, and gas. We will
discuss that water melts, freezes, boils, evaporates and condenses. Try
this fun and easy at home lab: Get two cups. Fill each cup with the
same amount of water. Mark the water level. Put one cup in the
freezer. Put the other cup on a shelf. Observe what happens to the
level of water in each cup after 12 hours. If your child writes a short
summary of what happened (or you can email us pictures!), they will earn Monkey
Moolah.
Social Studies
We
are discussing the continents and oceans on our world map. The quiz on
Friday (10/18) will cover two weeks of material, including last week's map
skills.
Reminders:
Don’t forget to bring in your small
pumpkin for the Literary Pumpkin. We
will begin to paint and decorate our pumpkins on Thursday and Friday.
The last day of the first quarter grading
period is Monday, October 21st.
The
field trip to UNF EcoAdventure & Wildlife Sanctuary is Tuesday, October 22nd.
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