Monday, October 14, 2013

The 3 and a half day week...

Hello families! I hope you all have been enjoying this picture perfect Fall weekend! My family went pumpkin picking and spent an afternoon at Jiminy Peak's Fall Festival!
This upcoming week is a short one, due to the holiday and a half day on Thursday, however we certainly will make the most of the time we have together!

This week in...
Reading Workshop...
we will continue our character study. We are learning how we can formulate opinions about the characters we read, however, we must back our opinions with textual evidence. We have been reading from Charlotte's Web by E.B. White as a class. As we've been reading, we've been realizing how much depth each character has and we have been surprised to find that Wilbur really isn't a likeable pig based on his personality.

Writing Workshop...
we will learn how to edit our writing as we're writing and how this is an important skill when we write in all disciplines. We will also choose a seed idea. This seed idea will be a small moment that we will work on and take it through the writing process.

Math...
we will look at subtracting greater numbers with regrouping and subtracting across zeroes. We will also learn a new problem solving strategy: drawing a picture.

Science...
we will look at the parts of a flower and closely observe how our flowers on our plants change as it continues through its life cycle. This week we may even be able to learn about pollination and get the chance to pollinate our flowers!

Social Studies...
we hope to discuss continental drift and begin looking at the different landforms that cover our globe.

Dictionary Skills...
we have been learning how to navigate through a dictionary using guide words. We will begin looking words up to learn their part of speech.

I look forward to our upcoming conferences over the next three weeks. We have a lot to cover in our 20 minutes together! Thank you for your continued support.

This week's mystery reader was David's mom!!!

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