Dear Parents,

We’re going to have a great upcoming week. Below is a short description of what’s coming up and important links and/or announcements:

I recorded a special podcast as a follow up to parent conferences. If you haven’t heard it yet be sure to check it out. As always, if you can listen to it with your child present that’s even better.

Reader’s Workshop

We are shifting gears to a new part of our Setting Up a Powerful Reading Life Unit where the focus is on envisioning and prediction, two essential reading skills that undergird comprehension. The students will have a reading log check at the end of the week for a grade.

Writer’s Workshop

We will continue writing information books. They have turned in one information book and recorded a short TED Talk style video discussing it. Next week we will write books with chapters.

Math

We will continue our Introduction to Ratios unit. This week we studied ratios with double number lines as well as unit price and speed. We will put these ideas together next week to solve ratio problems with ratio tables. The kids will have a quiz on ratio tables on Thursday. Math Answers and Help Here.

History

We will continue our study of Ancient Mesopotamia for Lesson 1 and Lesson 2 (still working on this.

Science

In preparation for the upcoming science fair we will be studying about research skills.

Thank you,

Mr. Gray