Upcoming Dates:
Feb. 22-26 - Parent/Teacher Conference Week- Thursday/Friday Early Dismissal at 11:00
Mar. 29-Apr.2 - Spring Break - No School
Apr. 6 - No School (Election Day)
*Italics are repeated from last week.
*Italics are repeated from last week.
Reading: We will continue work with our reading unit: "Bigger Books Mean Amping Up Reading Power". This unit is all about increasing reading fluency, understanding literary language, keeping track of longer books, and setting reading goals. This week we will learn that readers must pay attention to literary language -comparisons, invented words, figurative language- asking, "What might the author want me to see, to understand?" We will be paying special attention to the times when an author is playing around with words and try to figure out what the author is really saying.
Writing: We will continue work with our writing unit: "Poetry: Big Thoughts in Small Packages". This unit is all about writing poetry and focusing on line breaks, rhythm, and meaningful phrases. Making sure our words rhyme is completely optional (poetry is so much more than that!).This week the kids will learn that poets choose topics that mean a lot to them, anchoring those topics in small meaningful moments. We will also talk about ways to come up with topics for our poems.
Math: We will continue our work with Module 4: "Addition and Subtraction within 200 with Word Problems to 100". This week we will continue to work on subtraction with regrouping. We will also work on solving addition and subtraction word problems. We will take our end-of-module assessment the following week on Monday, March 1st.
Social Studies/Science: We will add new states to our United States map practice and continue to learn about the history of technology. This week we reviewed the northeastern states. We did not learn any new states this week. For social studies, we are learning about the history of technology. Students are also sharing their technology interviews with each other.