Week 9

We have reached the end of the first 9 weeks!

Thank you so much for quickly returning the conference forms!

This week in…

Spelling: We read through a Scholastic News magazine and we highlighted spelling words along with answering reading comprehension questions about the different articles. The kids took their spelling quiz this morning.

Grammar: We discussed three different homophones: your/you’re, whose/who’s, and its/it’s. The students took an assessment this morning.

Reading: In reading we continued to discuss summarizing and main idea. They took their main idea assessment this morning.

Writing: We finished up writing narratives and the students shared their writing with the class.

Social Studies: We talked about the last Native American tribe, the Seminoles. The test over Native Americans will be on Wednesday. I totally forgot about our field trip on Tuesday so obviously we will not be able to take our test that day! Oops! As you are helping your child study, please make sure they are also studying the map of the locations of the tribes we have discussed. This will be in their Social Studies notebook.

Math: We continued reviewing unit 1. We took our unit test this afternoon.

Next week in…

Spelling: I will give out a new list of spelling words for my kiddos, the list is posted on the blog and the kids will write them down in their agendas on Monday. Mrs. Burns will give her kiddos their spelling words as well.

Grammar: We will be talking about adjectives.

Reading: The students will be discussing the differences between scientific, historical, and technical texts along with finding the theme and message of a fiction story.

Writing: We will begin discussing opinion writing.

Social Studies: We will take our Native American test on Wednesday.

Math: We will begin chapter 3 which is over the oh so fun multiplication! PLEASE stick with the strategies that we are teaching in class otherwise the kids will be totally confused. I will be more than happy to send out some videos that will teach you the strategies we are using in class. I understand that this is different from the way you and I learned how to multiply, however this is how they have to learn now and they will need to be able to explain the different strategies on the Milestone. Unfortunately they cannot use the standard algorithm. I appreciate your support with this.

Our field trip to the Booth Museum is next Tuesday. I have actually been to the Booth Museum before and it is pretty neat, so I think the kids will enjoy it. Who am I kidding, they would enjoy anything that doesn’t involve sitting in class! If your child told me they are bringing a sack lunch, please have it in a brown paper bag or a plastic bag. They should know what they told me. I will remind them next week.

Don’t forget, I will be placing a Scholastic order on October 31^st!

Have a great weekend!