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.
*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.