Week of December 7th

Welcome back to a full week of school. Hopefully everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving, spending time with family!

Last week I had the opportunity to go to a wonderful training called Lead to Learn. It is always difficult not being in the classroom, but I am very excited to implement some of these strategies in my teaching!

Reading: This week we are going to focus on the comprehension strategy or monitoring and adjusting while reading!
We will be reading The Talking Cloth. We will continue to work on nouns. We will continue with the writer's workshop on personal narratives!

DECEMBER Book Project: Students need to read 15 times this month, since it is a shorter month. The project will be due the week of Christmas, before break. We will be doing presentations Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before Christmas break starts. Students will "act" like the character from the book that they chose to read for the month of December. Students should be creative and dress like the character and create a prop that will help with the presentation. Be creative and have fun!

Math - We are starting Chapter 3 in Math. This chapter focuses on adding and subtracting.

Social Studies - We are working on a Treasure Map project that will focus on all map skills that we have learned so far this year, including landforms!

We will also be starting our Pennsylvania unit!