November News

 Last week was stellar! Our class worked incredibly hard and we accomplished so much. It was so nice to be in school for five full days. This week we will also work hard, but we are faced with an unusual week. Tuesday is a half day for the students (12:10 dismissal). Thursday is our Book Fair preview day. We will browse the Book Fair at 11:35. On Friday, we will have an opportunity to purchase books from 2:00 - 2:30. Also, on Friday afternoon I have a district meeting to attend on our writing curriculum. I will be out of the room from 12:00 until the end of the day.

Reading
     We will put the finishing touches on our character study early this week. Last week we began reading short texts (fiction and nonfiction) together and closely studying the author's purpose, word choice and main idea.
     This week we will begin our nonfiction unit. We will begin by examining the common text features found in nonfiction and how we can use them to help deepen our understanding of a nonfiction text or article. We will continue to read short stories and poems together this week.

Writing
     This week we will work on revising our narratives and adding more detail to the heart of the story. Today, we had put the word "said" to rest. We are developing an amazing list of words we could use in our writing instead of said! We will also continue to practice writing cohesive paragraphs.

Math
    It is that time!!!! MULTIPLICATION!!! The class is very excited and so am I. We took a short test on subtraction today and will begin our first multiplication unit on Tuesday. We begin by relating addition to multiplication, then looking at arrays and the properties of multiplication.

Science
    We pollinated our plants and have watched as our plants went through their final stages of life. Today we looked at the seed pods that were produced after pollination and we said "goodbye" to our plants. The children brought home their plant logs today. They really learned a lot of valuable observation skills during this unit!

Language Arts
     We have been reviewing what makes a complete sentence and the different types of sentences. We are looking at various types of punctuation and how punctuation can change the meanings of statements. We are preparing to learn the different types of sentences and will then look at complex sentences.

   We had a very nice Halloween party and we did so many fun activities on Friday we weren't able to write a Friday Letter.

Our Mystery Reader from October 24th! Freddie's mom!

 

Pictures of our painting our pumpkins! A special thanks to Drew's mom, Natalie's mom, and Freddie's mom for making our pumpkin painting possible!