This week in reading we will wrap up our unit on questioning. We will extend the strategy of asking questions this week by discussing thick and thin questions and lingering questions. Thick questions are questions that lead to group discussion, often have a long extended answer and require the reader to use their skills of inferring and activating schema in order to answer them. Thin questions can be answered with a word or a sentence and often times the answer lies right in the text. They are simple answers and do not lend themselves to discussion. Lingering questions are questions that remain with the reader when the book is finished. Lingering questions allow the reader to use their skills of inferring and predicting to develop possible answers to these types of questions after the story is over. Our literature connection this week is The Incredible Paintings of Felix Clousseau. We will also use our class read aloud book Holes and guided reading books to practice these types of questions.
In writing, we will take a look at simple plurals ending in s and es. For our craft lessons, we will be looking at red flag transition words in the main event of our personal narratives. Red flag words bring excitement and sentence variety to stories as well as help transition to different events.
We will assess Unit 6 in math today. We will begin Unit 7 on Tuesday. Unit 7 focuses on Patterns and Rules. Our lessons this week will address extension compliments of 10, patterns in counting, and mental math. We will continue to revisit subtraction with regrouping as well. We will give our Mid Year Assessment this week. This assessment will cover material taught over the first half of the school year.
In science, we continue to talk about the water cycle. We will finish up our study cards and they will be sent home for additional practice. Students should know the four stages of the water cycle and be able to describe each stage. The assessment will be given next Monday. An optional word bank will be provided for the assessment. We will work on making an interactive poster to help extend our knowledge of the water cycle this week.
Our field trip to Mechanics Hall is next Friday. If you have not submitted your permission slip and 9.00 payment, please send it in this week. If you need another copy, please let me know! Our chaperones will be Anderson, Gilmore and Ghidella. Thanks to all who volunteered!
We have plenty of openings for Guest Reader from now to the end of the year! Please let me know via email if you would like to come in any Monday from 230-3!
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