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 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.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. 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.
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.
Math: This week we will wrap up 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. We are going to spend some time reviewing what we have learned in class. Towards the end of the week we will start our new math module, Module 7: "Problem Solving with Length, Money, and Data". This module starts with analyzing graphs and data.
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 continued our social studies unit: "The History of Technology". This week the kids will continue to share the interviews that they 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. This past week we added MA to our growing list! Ask your child about Chef MIMAL's "Massive" fishing hook!