Weekly Update- 11/9

A short update for a short week!  In math, we completed Topic 4.  On Monday, we will be starting Topic 5 in which the students will begin learning their times tables.  It is important that the students practice their facts each night!

In reading, we began the book, Hiking the Appalachian Trail.  This is a narrative nonfiction book that talks about a family's journey on the Appalachian Trail.  There are many interesting facts in this book, including the fact that the youngest person to hike the entire trail was 6 and the oldest was 79!  While reading this book, the students are working on their summarizing skills.  We will continue with this book next week.

In writing we are still focusing on narrative writing, and this week our focus was on prompt writing.  We looked at different types of prompts (narrative, descriptive, persuasive) and we have practiced responding to them.  We will be doing more practice with this next week.

We finished our map skills unit in Social Studies.  On Tuesday, we discussed the concept of map scale and how it is used.  Today, we read the book, The Wall and watched a movie clip about the book as a kickoff to a discussion about Veteran's Day.  The students shared stories about their relatives and neighbors who have fought in wars.  We talked about the importance of these people to our country.   On Monday, we will return to science and start our weather unit!

In Fundations, we are continuing to work on adding suffixes to v-e words.  In Spanish, we practiced more with greetings and we will be learning numbers next week.  Today in grammar the students learned about interrogative (question) and declarative (statement) sentences. 

REMINDER: Thursday 11/17-Wednesday 11/23 are early dismissal days.  On these days, the cafeteria does not serve lunch.  We will be eating in the classroom, so please send in a lunch for your child on these days.

ENJOY THE LONG WEEKEND!