Week of: March 22

  Upcoming Dates:

Mar. 26 - Report Cards Go Home (*This will be in the form of an email attachment.)
Mar. 29-Apr.2 - Spring Break - No School
Apr. 6 - No School (Election Day)
May 31 - Memorial Day - No School

*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 spend a lot of time working in our Book Clubs.  Your child is working in a small group with other classmates to become stronger on a specific area of their choice.  Your child either chose: Reading Fluency, Literary Language, or Keeping Track of Longer Books.  They came up with a plan together and are working on these in their groups and giving each other feedback. 

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 there is a relationship between structure and meaning in poetry. They will learn to choose structures that best match what they are trying to say. We will also learn that sometime writers write from a point of view other than their own.  Finally, we will also work on revision this week. 

Math:    We will continue our work with Module 7: "Problem Solving with Length, Money, and Data". This week we will finish up our work with coins and dollars. We will learn to use the fewest number of coins to make a given value.  We will also work on different ways to make $1 and to make change from $1. Finally, we will work on words problems involving coins and dollars in amounts up to $100.

Social Studies/Science:  We will review or add new states to our United States map. For science, we will continue work with our science unit: "Pebbles, Sand and Silt".  This week we will be learning about the three different types of rocks.  We will also be learning about the "Story of Rocks" and how erosion affects rocks. We will also studying influential women from history as part of our Women's History Month focus. 

Week of: March 15th

 Upcoming Dates:

Mar. 15 - First Day of Trimester 3
Mar. 29-Apr.2 - Spring Break - No School
Apr. 6 - No School (Election Day)
May 31 - Memorial Day - No School

*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 to set goals and to work with other readers in a "reading club".  We will also learn how to support each other by giving helpful feedback to other club members. We will wrap up this reading unit with an assessment late this week or early next week! 

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 to stretch their comparisons across many lines in their poems and to add actions that connect with the comparison.  They will also experiment with different poem structures.  We will study different structures by doing some close reading of mentor poems. 

Math:    We will continue our work with Module 7: "Problem Solving with Length, Money, and Data". This week we work on solving word problems involving the total value of a group of coins and/or bills. We will also learn to use the fewest number of coins to make a given value. 

Social Studies/Science:  We will review or add new states to our United States map. For science, we will continue work with our science unit: "Pebbles, Sand and Silt".  This week we will be exploring and discovering the properties of rocks. We will also learn about different types of rocks. Our Scholastic News article will be: "Too Dry for a Toad?".  We will also be studying influential women from history as part of our Women's History Month focus. 

Week of: March 8th

 Upcoming Dates:

Mar. 15 - First Day of Trimester 3
Mar. 29-Apr.2 - Spring Break - No School
Apr. 6 - No School (Election Day)
May 31 - Memorial Day - No School

*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 to slow down, reread, and ask questions when we're having trouble understanding what we are reading. We will also learn set goals and to work with other readers in a "reading club". 

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 repeat words, line, sounds, and images to give their poems rhythm. They will also learn that poets need to consider the mood they want to convey in their poems. Finally, we will talk about using comparison in our poems as a way to make meaning.

Math:    We will continue with our new module, Module 7: "Problem Solving with Length, Money, and Data". This week we will learn to draw bar graphs to represent data as well as solve word problems involving data that is presented in a bar graph. We will begin to learn about coins and recognizing the value  of coins and counting to find their total value. 

Social Studies/Science:  We will add new states to our United States map. For science, we are starting a new unit: "Pebbles, Sand and Silt".  This week we will be exploring and discovering the properties of rocks. Our Scholastic News will cover Christian Robinson who is an illustrator for children's books, including: Last Stop on Market Street.