Upcoming Dates:
Feb. 21: President's Day - No School
March 15: Teacher Institute Day - No School for Students
March 28-April 1: Spring Break!
April 15: No School Today
*Italics are repeated from last week's blog.
Writing: We will be starting a new writing unit: "Writing About Reading". This is actually a unit on opinion writing and using evidence to support our opinions. Next week the kids will take a pre-writing assessment. Then we will learn that writers are often inspired by their reading and we will reach out to others with opinions and ideas about characters.
Reading: We will be starting a new reading unit this week: "Bigger Books Mean Amping Up Reading Power". This unit will focus on building reading fluency, understanding literary language, tackling longer books, and goal-setting. This week we will learn that reading aloud can help the in-our-head reading voice as well. We will also practice scooping up words in phrases and noticing punctuation marks. Finally, we will learn that "dialogue tags" can help us to read with more expression.
Math: This week we will start a new math module, Module 7: "Problem Solving with Length, Money, and Data". This week we will focus on data and graphing. The kids will draw and label picture and bar graphs as well as answer questions based on the given data. Finally, the kids will be solving word problems using data presented in a bar graph.
Social Studies/Science: We will continue our learning about having a growth mindset all year long. We will be starting our earth science unit: "Pebbles, Sand, and Silt". This week we will be exploring and discovering the properties of rocks.