Upcoming Dates:
Feb. 20 - President's Day - No School
Feb. 20-24 - Black History Week - Click here for more info.
March 27-31 - Spring Break - No School
*Italics are repeated from last week's blog.
Reading: We will continue with our reading unit: "Studying Characters and Their Stories". This unit is all about characters and studying how they change and grow. The students will be making lots of inferences and predictions in this unit! First, we will learn about character traits and how to "stop and jot" to make predictions. We will also work on writing complete answers to questions about our reading using the R.A.C.E. Strategy. You can click here to learn more about the RACE Strategy. This week we will learn how to jot about characters that have more than one feeling at a time. We will also learn the difference between "outside" traits and "inside" character traits. Finally, we will work on finding evidence it our books to prove character traits.
Writing: We will be continuing our writing unit: "Writing Gripping Fictional Stories". This unit is all about character and plot development. The kids always have so much fun making up their own characters and stories! This week we will will work on editing out stories. We will also work on using transition words to make out stories more smooth and organized.
Writing: We will be continuing our writing unit: "Writing Gripping Fictional Stories". This unit is all about character and plot development. The kids always have so much fun making up their own characters and stories! This week we will will work on editing out stories. We will also work on using transition words to make out stories more smooth and organized.
Math: This week we will continue our math module, Module 4: "Addition and Subtraction Within 200 with Word Problems to 100". This is a huge module that covers several different strategies for adding and subtracting larger numbers. Next week we will use manipulatives to represent addition problems with regrouping in both the tens and hundreds places. We will also learn to use math drawings to represent these new groupings. We will be learning to relate the manipulatives and drawings to the written method ("carrying the one").
Social Studies/Science: We will continue our learning about having a growth mindset all year long. However, we are also working on a social studies unit about the History of Technology. We have started our new social studies unit: "The History of Technology". This week the kids will begin sharing the interviews that hey did over Winter Break. They will learn how technology has changed over time! We have also continued to learn the locations of the 50 states.