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Need to Know

Reading

We will start off the year with a short unit reading realistic fiction books and learning the routines and practices of reading in this class. The kids will explore our class library and reflect on themselves as readers. They will choose their own books to read for this week and next. I will use the book Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting to review making strong predictions and noticing small details. They will also take the district test: STAR reading.

Read Aloud

The Wild Robot by: Peter Brown

Writing

We will start off the year with a short unit writing a realistic narrative based on a random picture and learning the routines and practices of writing in this class. The kids will reflect on themselves as writers, begin their story by storytelling to plan, and try to bring the character to life by highlighting small details and bringing out the character’s quirks.

Maths

We will spend class time this week exploring what it means to be a mathematician in this class. The kids will solve big problems individually and in groups. We will celebrate precision over speed, visualizing thinking, clearly communicating ideas, creative problem-solving, and working together. The kids will also take a district math test: STAR math.

Social Studies

We will start our first social studies unit of the year: Pre-Columbian America. We will start the week exploring Native American culture and what the Americas may have been like before 1492. We will finish the week discussing what it means to be a historian and making the connection between Native Americans in Pre-Columbus America and today.

Science

Science Lab with Ms. DeMarco

Language

Nothing this week.

Leadership

This Week’s Habit: Be Proactive: Take Initiative, You’re in Charge

This Week’s Hero: Virginia Apgar

August 24-25, 2023

*Bring Supplies Friday, Not Thursday

 May 29 - June 2, 2023

Thank you for a wonderful year!

Have a great summer!

 May 22-26, 2023

Need to Know

Reader’s 

Workshop

We will continue our unit on Fantasy Books unit. The kids will make a final project where they make a Book Review geared towards parents with the template of the Common Sense Media website. The project will be due on Friday.

Read Aloud

Writer’s 

Workshop

The kids will keep working on their Fantasy Stories.  The kids will publish their stories, review them with their writing partner and with me, will use Open AI’s DALL-E 2 to make a cover for their fantasy novel.

Maths

We will take a short quiz on shapes on the coordinate plane.

Social Studies

We will continue to work on a project called, Fortunately, Unfortunately where the students are writing a book with a partner recapping the important parts of the American Revolution following the structure of the book Fortunately by Remy Charlip. 

Read Aloud

The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington Young Reader’s Edition Read Aloud by Brad Meltzer

Science

The kids will, of course, see Ms. DeMarco for Science Lab.

A message from Ms. DeMarco:

Vocabulary

Nothing this week.