Hello families! October is upon us! We have many new things happening in our classroom this week. This week is Farm to You Week and the Regional Food Bank will be doing a presentation in our class on Tuesday afternoon discussing pollination and germination. A perfect presentation to kick off our pollination unit in science! On Monday we will be planting our own seeds to learn about and watch the life cycle of a plant. In social studies we will begin to look at the geography of South America and use our knowledge of a compass rose to navigate through this continent. In reading workshop, we will begin an in depth study of character. We will use the text Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo to learn about how understanding characters are the key to understanding a text. We will collect memories in writing workshop for our personal narrative. Singular and plural nouns will continue to be our focus in word work. We have learned three important rules so far and will learn three more this week! We are moving on to a new topic in math. This week we'll be focusing on addition properties and subtraction strategies and rounding to estimate sums and differences. We will also take our first math fact quiz on Friday on both addition and subtraction facts with 10s and 11s. Look for your child's first math chapter test to come home this week on Place Value for you to view, sign, and return for me to keep for my records.
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