I am back in the classroom as usual this week. Thank you to Mrs. Stech for her hard work during her takeover weeks!
This week we will focus our whole group reading sessions on character traits. Students will be responsible for identifying personality traits of characters and also identifying text evidence to support their opinions. We will be discussing this concept as well as creating written responses. Students will be using their opinion writing paragraph template using a topic sentence two reasons with supporting evidence and a closing sentence. Our text connection for the week will be Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters.
In writing we will be starting a new theme of outdoor fun. Students will write to a vareity of genre under this theme. This week we will be working on a personal narrative about a fun outdoor experience. Students are now required to write their narratives using all components of the writing diamond. These include an entertaining beginning, descriptive setting, fully developed main event and an extended ending. We will also be learning about Haiku poetry and alphabetical order to the third and fourth letter.
In math, we continue with Unit 10. This week our lessons will focus on place value to the ten thousands and grouping with parentheses. We will assess unit 10 early next week.
We have a special presentation by the Acton Discovery Museum Wednesday on the different states of matter. They will be visiting our classroom with a variety of different experiments. We will also review the core concepts and vocabulary of our unit and will have our assessment next Monday. Study cards will be coming home this week to help prepare. I will also send home an electronic copy of the PowerPoint presentation showed in class to help review as well.
Have a great week!
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