This week we will shift gears to a new comprehension strategy known as determining importance. This strategy asks the reader to identify important vs. non-important parts of text and use their knowledge of the important parts to synthesize the text for themselves and for others. Our text connection for the week will be Me First. We will be using this strategy in whole grou lessons, guided reading and in our reading response journals independently. During Daily Five this week, students will be asked to write about an important character from their Read to Self book and identify reasons and text evidence that makes them important to the story.
We will focus on our main event in Writer's Workshop this week. The focus strategy will be "Show Don't Tell". The use of this strategy allows the writer to show emotion in his or her writing through description, similes and elaborative detail. We will also look at plurals ending in y and the change y to i and add -es rule.
In math, we continue on with Unit 7. Our lessons this week will focus on addition of three or more numbers, patterns in doubles and halves, weight, and data collection. We will continue to practice addition and subtraction with and without regrouping as well as word problems and the explanation of strategies used to solve.
We will extend our unit on weather with information about clouds this week. The three different types of clouds we will study are cirrus, cumulus and stratus. We will also being our new unit in social studies on citizenship and leadership. We will start this week by identifying leaders within our school, community and world as well as identifying qualities of good leaders. We will launch a project based learning experience on this topic next week.
We have a school wide presentation on Abraham Lincoln on Thursday morning.
Friday morning is our field trip to Mechanics Hall. Please ensure that your child is at school promptly by 9:00. We will be back in time for lunch and our regular afternoon routine.
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