November 8th

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:

Reader’s Workshop

We will continue our study of nonfiction books. This is a deep dive into how to read nonfiction books since they are different from fiction books mostly because they are trying to teach something, rather than entertain or affect you. The kids will make predictions, then confirm or revise their predictions, take action to clear up confusion, and set reading goals. The will continue reading their fiction books at home and I will check the work they’ve done of their fiction books in their reader’s notebooks.

Writer’s Workshop

The kids will take up a cause of their own interest to give a speech. During the week they will craft their persuasive speech using all the tools we have learned during our opinion writing unit and finally give the speech on Friday.

Math

Math Answers and Help Here

Tuesday will be a review day before the end of Unit Assessment on Wednesday. The end of unit assessment will cover Unit Rates and Percentages. This will be all the work we’ve done since Fall Break. Be sure to go over the coursework quizzes to study. Have students meet with me on Tuesday if they have questions.

History

For week 4 of our pyramid projects the kids will set out the task of turning their drawings into small models. I will ask students to bring in some materials to build (cardboard from amazon boxes, paper, etc.).

Science

Information on new textbook

The students will begin learning science from our new science textbook, Twig. We will start by studying human body systems.

Thank you,

Mr. Gray