Reading Oh, the places we'll go! Our ACTIVE (Asking Questions, Making Connections, Retelling, Inferring, Visualizing and Evaluating) reading strategies are helping us to read with purpose and understanding. February was all about determining importance and visualizing. This month we will focus on SYNTHESIZING all of our previous learning of our ACTIVE strategies and use those strategies in all facets of our lives. Synthesizing is like an onion, layers of learning or like a puzzle, our learning/understanding is not complete without using all of our skills. Reflection is a big piece of that. Reflecting on how a strategy helps me understand, moves our thinking forward.
Writing In library students are working on researching a particular explorer (5th grade will research US History explorers, 4th grade will research WA state explorers). Their new found skill in DETERMINING IMPORTANCE will aid them in this. They will be creating a poster with well-written informative paragraphs. We are also writing about something we are an expert on. We have written long about what we know. We are adding research to beef up our expository piece and are now organizing to write a rough draft. You can look forward to their finished piece around report card time.
Math January through March brings fractions and decimals. We are exploring fractions in many ways: using money, geometrical shapes on a grid, clock/time, ordering on a number line, adding/subtracting/multiplying and dividing, and decomposing.
Science The 5th graders are exploring matter. The 4th graders will soon begin their unit on bones and muscles.
Spelling Keep studying those spelling words! You will continue to see many of them resurface again. I will try to send the spelling list out at the beginning of the week for practice.
Next week's words are:
5th - often, piece, village, table, animals, they're, trouble, field, store, edge, friends, because, all ready, catch, water, there, mouth, bigger, suddenly, nothing, point, object, age, minute, wall, meet
4th - a lot, begin, because, bigger, common, complete, fact, first, floor, found, first, ice, important, knowing, past, passed, place, problem, remembering, ship, themselves, though, through, watch
Things to be aware of:
Thank you to Mr. Weatherl for cutting all my 4th grade social studies region projects! That was a huge help!
DR. SEUSS WEEK!
* Monday the 2nd: Green Eggs and Ham for lunch
* Wednesday the 4th: Crazy Hat Day. Wear your craziest hat to school.
* Friday the 6th: PALS Dr. Seuss Dance! 6:30pm
* Juggling Team begins Monday the 2nd, right after school. Permission slips were due last Friday.
* 5th Grade Human Development videos shown March 27th
Writing In library students are working on researching a particular explorer (5th grade will research US History explorers, 4th grade will research WA state explorers). Their new found skill in DETERMINING IMPORTANCE will aid them in this. They will be creating a poster with well-written informative paragraphs. We are also writing about something we are an expert on. We have written long about what we know. We are adding research to beef up our expository piece and are now organizing to write a rough draft. You can look forward to their finished piece around report card time.
Math January through March brings fractions and decimals. We are exploring fractions in many ways: using money, geometrical shapes on a grid, clock/time, ordering on a number line, adding/subtracting/multiplying and dividing, and decomposing.
Science The 5th graders are exploring matter. The 4th graders will soon begin their unit on bones and muscles.
Spelling Keep studying those spelling words! You will continue to see many of them resurface again. I will try to send the spelling list out at the beginning of the week for practice.
Next week's words are:
5th - often, piece, village, table, animals, they're, trouble, field, store, edge, friends, because, all ready, catch, water, there, mouth, bigger, suddenly, nothing, point, object, age, minute, wall, meet
4th - a lot, begin, because, bigger, common, complete, fact, first, floor, found, first, ice, important, knowing, past, passed, place, problem, remembering, ship, themselves, though, through, watch
Things to be aware of:
Thank you to Mr. Weatherl for cutting all my 4th grade social studies region projects! That was a huge help!
DR. SEUSS WEEK!
* Monday the 2nd: Green Eggs and Ham for lunch
* Wednesday the 4th: Crazy Hat Day. Wear your craziest hat to school.
* Friday the 6th: PALS Dr. Seuss Dance! 6:30pm
* Juggling Team begins Monday the 2nd, right after school. Permission slips were due last Friday.
* 5th Grade Human Development videos shown March 27th