I hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend! This week, in literacy we will be looking at the comprehension strategy of making connections. Students will be working on identifying their connection both orally and in writing as well as citing the part of the text that allowed them to make the connection. Our whole group text connection this week will be Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Students will also be working on this strategy in their guided reading groups.
In to deliver effective instruction, students will also be meeting in word work groups to work on different sound and spelling patterns. Students also have individual sight words to work for spelling practice as well.
In writer's workshop, we will begin to focus on the craft of personal narratives. We will introduce the description of the setting. Students will be encouraged to describe their story settings using the five senses. This week, we will work on a small writing piece and work on describing an autumn day. We will also look at complete sentences, fragments and run-on sentences.
We continue on with Unit Two this week in math. Our lessons will focus on name collection boxes, frames and arrows, and in and out boxes. We will have our Unit Two assessment next week. We will have our Unit Three pre-assessment on Friday. We have started to introduce some of the components for our Math Daily Five program. This is a similar format to Reading Daily Five and allows small group differentiated math instruction as well as opportunities for review, preview and extension. The five components for Math Daily Five are Math with a Group, Math Journal, Math by Myself, Math with Tools and Math with a Partner.
In social studies, we continue talking about basic economic needs of a community. We will revisit needs and wants and move our discussion into consumers and producers/buyers and sellers.
New October book orders will come home today in the Monday Folders. You can order online or simply send back the paper order form with check payment. Please return/submit online by Monday October 15.
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