Here is a look at what we are working on and what is coming next.
Friday, November 9th is our Veterans Day Assembly. We ask all students to participate in the assembly by wearing red, white, or blue on this day! Kindergarten and first-grade students should wear red shirts, second and third-grade students should wear white shirts, and fourth and fifth-grade students should wear blue shirts.
Thank you all for your support in making this a great event!
Reading:
We are continuing to work on our second unit, which is Reading the Weather, Reading the World. We will be planning for a research project, synthesizing our learning, reading various types of text, writing to grow research-based ideas, tackling complex text through small group work, and teaching one another. Please remind your students to be reading each night at home. We ask for at least 30 minutes.
Writing:
We are continuing to work on our second unit, which is Boxes and Bullets. Our focus over the next few weeks will be composing and sorting mini-stories, creating parallelism in lists, organizing for drafting, building a cohesive draft, and small group work on paragraphing, using transition words, and revising. Ask your students about their thesis statement.
Science:
In Mrs. Wright’s class, students will continue the unit, The Human Brain. In this module, students will be introduced to the analogy of the brain as a computer. In Mrs. Swanger’s class, students will continue the unit, Energy Collisions. Through the example of bumper cars, students will be introduced to energy transfer and conversions in collisions. In Mrs. Childes’ class, students will continue the unit, Energy Conversions. Students will learn about conversions of energy as well as the conversion of a variety of fuel sources from stored energy to useable electricity.
Social Studies:
We are beginning our next unit, which is titled Missouri Statehood and Westward Expansion. Students will apply their knowledge of the Louisiana Purchase to explain Missouri statehood and Missouri’s important role in Westward Expansion. Students will also outline issues of Missouri statehood and explain the significance of the Missouri Compromise in maintaining an uneasy balance of slave and free states in the Union.
Math:
We are continuing our unit on Multiplication and Division. Students will be using basic division facts and patterns to solve larger problems, breaking the dividend into easier parts, multiplying groups to reach the dividend, and using partial products or partial quotients. Please take any extra time to help your student practice their basic multiplication facts!
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