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:

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Reader’s

Workshop

We are almost finished with our first fiction reading unit. We will wrap up looking at strategies for tackling hard words and then start a Book Report!

Writer’s

Workshop

The students will celebrate their 2 published works and then we will move on to the last part of our first writing unit. The challenge as they write their last few drafts and last published piece of this unit will be to try to focus in on a moment that was a real problem and show how the problem was overcome. We will also work on punctuating dialogue, revising, and revising endings by learning from published writing. The kids will publish their 3rd narrative and over the next couple of weeks we will transition to narrative writing.

Math

What happened to math class?

We will continue our introduction to multiplication. We will study how groups of items can be shown as arrays and factor trees. This will lead us into multiplication facts and area of rectangles over the next few weeks.

Social

Studies

TBD (because it’s such a short week).

Science

The kids will finish presenting their pet umbrellas and we may get to moving onto studying forces.

Thank you,

Mr. Gray