We welcome the month of March with preparations for our ELA exam the first week of April. We are learning how to take a reading and writing test and how to utilize various strategies that are helpful when taking a test like this. The emphasis in the classroom isn't on how this is an important test...I'm just trying to prepare them for the length and rigor. They have never experienced anything like this before.
We continue in reading workshop with our biographies. We are learning so many interesting facts about our person and the time period in which they lived! Please save the date!!! We will be inviting families in on Thursday, March 27th from 2:30 - 3:15 for our Wax Museum. (Detailed information will be sent home soon).
In writing workshop, our non-fiction writing has been put on hold to learn essay writing and using textual evidence to support our written responses. We will continue with non-fiction here and there throughout this month.
In math, our focus continues to be on fractions and we are now investigating area. Please be sure you continue to practice math facts at home. Encourage your child to go on xtramath.org. If you lost the login information please let me know. I'd be happy to send it home again.
Solar system research is off and running in our room. We have begun researching the planets and learning how you spend most of your time reading information when researching and how researching really means to "search" for information. :-) Many of us want the answers to pop out in big, bold letters, but we are finding that we must read to find our information.
We are also continuing our discussion on prefixes and suffixes, with an emphasis on suffixes this week. We are learning to dissect words and their meanings and how we can put various prefixes and suffixes to different words and their meanings change.
Last week's mystery reader was Catherine's mom!
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