Hopefully we will continue to have our normal schedules. It seems like we have missed so much school with 2 hour delays and cancellations. Hopefully we will be able to get back into our routine.
Last week we started reading a novel called Charlotte's Web. We have been focusing on different reading strategies and the thinking behind those strategies. It is amazing to see and hear how students are thinking and understanding information. Some of the strategies we are using are: summarizing, visualizing, questioning, using inferences, monitoring our understanding, identifying important details vs. interesting details, and synthesizing our thinking. I read two paragraphs from the book and had the students choose one of the strategies to use and explain their thinking...WOW! I was amazed at how much students were writing and discussing with each other. It was great seeing all students so involved and interested in their own thinking process. This week we will continue working on Charlotte's Web. We will review nouns and continue work on verbs. We will be introducing adjectives.
We are finishing up on our personal narrative stories this week in writer's workshop.
Math - We have finished our unit on telling time and graphs. The test will be Monday. We will then be starting a unit on Geometry and Fractions while doing multiplication.
Science - We have just finished our unit on Magnetism and will be starting the section on electricity. Don't forget to check out the sites that were posted earlier this week. This is always an exciting unit to do. Students will be learning about and creating parallel and series circuits.
FIELD TRIP: We will be going to see the play, Aladdin, on Tuesday. We will be eating lunch around 10:15, so you do not have to pack a special lunch. You may want to pack a snack for after the field trip due to the early lunch. We will be leaving the school around 11:00 and will be back around 2:00. The chaperones have been chosen and have been notified. Thank you for volunteering, I wish I could take every parent that wanted to go, but we were only able to choose 2.
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