Upcoming Dates:
March 27-31 - Spring Break - No School
April 3 - Field Trip to The Museum of Science and Industry (more info. to come)
April 4 - Teacher Institute Day - No School for Students
April 7 - No School - Non-Attendance Day
May 29 - Memorial Day - No School
June 9 - Last Day of School
*Italics are repeated from last week's blog.
Reading: We will be continuing with our reading unit: "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 "dialogue tags" can help us to read with more expression. We will learn that fluent readers match their voices to the meaning of the text. Finally, we will work on our reading pace, making sure we are not reading too fast or too slow. 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.
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. We will learn that writers are often inspired by their reading and we will reach out to others with opinions and ideas about characters. We will learn to use conversations with others as ways to plan for our writing. We will also learn to use the pictures in books to help us form the opinions that we want to share in our writing.
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. We will learn that writers are often inspired by their reading and we will reach out to others with opinions and ideas about characters. We will learn to use conversations with others as ways to plan for our writing. We will also learn to use the pictures in books to help us form the opinions that we want to share in our writing.
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. Towards the end of this week we will start to think about coins and working with coin combinations.
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. Last week we started a new science unit: "Pebbles, Sand, and Silt". This unit focus on earth science and studying earth materials. This past week the kids did a great job taking lab notes and also exploring volcanic rocks. They learned about the properties of rocks and also the idea of "weathering". We have also continued to learn the locations of the 50 states. This past week we added RI and CT to our growing list!