Week of: May 3rd

 Upcoming Dates:

May 7 - Remote Learning Planning Day - No School for Students
May 13 - Virtual Author's Visit at 2:00 - Pete Oswald
May 31 - Memorial Day - No School
June 10 - Last Day of School 

*Italics are repeated from last week.
Reading: We will continue our current reading unit: "Series Book Clubs". In this unit, students will work together in small groups to read books in a series.  The students have been assigned books at their appropriate reading levels. They will work on comprehension strategies together with their groups. This week the kids will learn that they can figure out how a whole series will go once they notice how all of the books in a series go together.  We will also learn to notice "author's craft" in order to help us read our books more fluently. 

Writing: This week we will continue our work with our current writing unit: "Writing About Reading".  In this unit the children will learn to write about their opinions.  They will share their opinions about their favorite books. This week the kids will learn that writers must look for multiple pieces of evidence to support their opinions about a text. We will also study how and why authors use capital letters in different ways. Finally, we will learn to add fun little extras in order to "fancy up" our writing before sharing it with others. 

Math:    We will continue working on our new module: Module 6 "Foundations of Multiplication and Division". In this unit we will primarily be focusing on drawing arrays, repeated addition, and even/odd numbers. This week we will draw arrays with rows and columns. We will learn to relate those arrays to repeated addition. We will also partition rectangles into rows and columns and relate those to repeated addition.  Finally, we will begin to learn about even and odd numbers. 

Social Studies/Science:  We will review our United States map. This past week we started a new social studies unit: "Ways of Life" (Culture/Citizenship). Our first lesson taught the children about cultures, traditions, customs, and cultural diffusion. 
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Week of: April 19th

 Upcoming Dates:

May 7 - Remote Learning Planning Day - No School for Students
May 13 - Virtual Author's Visit at 2:00 - Pete Oswald
May 31 - Memorial Day - No School
June 10 - Last Day of School 

*Italics are repeated from last week.
Reading: We will continue our current reading unit: "Series Book Clubs". In this unit, students will work together in small groups to read books in a series.  The students have been assigned books at their appropriate reading levels. They will work on comprehension strategies together with their groups. This week the kids will learn that once they come to know the main character in a series, they can draw on their knowledge of the character's behavior to predict their character's next steps. They will also learn that readers get to know the different people in a character's life and compare them to their own relationships. 

Writing: This week we will continue our work with our current writing unit: "Writing About Reading".  In this unit the children will learn to write about their opinions.  They will share their opinions about their favorite books. This week the kids will learn that writers who write about books often need to retell part of the story in order to help their readers better understand their opinion. We will also learn that writers write with a specific audience in mind. Finally, we will learn to use a checklist to set goals for ourselves as writers. 

Math:    We will finish up our work with Module 7: "Problem Solving with Length, Money, and Data". This week we will learn to draw line plots to represent measurement data. We will also learn to answer questions based off of a line plot.  At the end of the week, we will take a math test covering all that was learned in Module 7. 

Social Studies/Science:  We will review our United States map. This past week we started a new social studies unit: "The World of Work" (Economics). Our first lesson taught the children the difference between "needs" and "wants".  This coming week we will learn about "goods" and "services" as well as "producers" and "consumers". 
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Week of: April 12th

 Upcoming Dates:

April 12 - Opera for the Young at 1:00 - Zoom link to come soon!
April 13 - Spelling Bee at 7:00 p.m. - via Zoom
May 7 - Remote Learning Planning Day - No School for Students
May 13 - Virtual Author's Visit at 2:00 - Pete Oswald
May 31 - Memorial Day - No School
June 10 - Last Day of School 

*Italics are repeated from last week.
Reading: We have started a new reading unit: "Series Book Clubs". In this unit, students will work together in small groups to read books in a series.  The students have been assigned books at their appropriate reading levels. They will work on comprehension strategies together with their groups. This week the kids will learn that readers think about how their characters respond to problems. They will also learn to look closely at their characters to determine how they "usually" feel and what they "always" do. We will learn to understand our characters even better, like experts!

Writing: This week we will also start a new writing unit: "Writing About Reading".  In this unit the children will learn to write about their opinions.  They will share their opinions about their favorite books. This week the kids will learn that writers are often inspired by their reading and reach out to others to share their ideas about characters. They will also learn to look closely at the the pictures in their books to help them develop opinions. 

Math:    We will continue our work with Module 7: "Problem Solving with Length, Money, and Data". This week we will learn to measure using rulers and yardsticks. We will learn to measure the same object using different units and to relate our measurements to unit size (for example: centimeters vs. inches). We will learn about the difference between inches, feet, and yards. Finally, we will work on solving measurement word problems.

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 will be our last week for this particular science unit.  We will learn about rocks as "earth materials" and study other earth materials (also known as "natural resources"). 
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