Reading Using our new found knowledge in Author's Purpose, we are forging on ahead into Inferring. All of these wonderful skills we are learning are helping us to understand the main idea of a text and real make connections to it. sing our inferencing skills we have delved into my neighbor's garbage (not really) to learn more about them and we've examined a pair of tennis shoes in order to learn more about their wearer. We are also beginning some shared inquiry as a group as we read for deep understanding of a text. This will turn into smaller groups sharing their questioning and diving deep for comprehension.
Writing Soon students will begin doing research on a particular explorer (5th grade will research US History explorers, 4th grade will research WA state explorers). They will be creating a poster with well-written informative paragraphs. We are also working hard on writing complete summaries and main ideas of various types of text.
Math January brings fractions. We are exploring fractions in many ways: using money, geometrical shapes on a grid, clock/time, ordering on a number line, adding and subtracting. It's an exciting month in Math.
Science
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 - there's, their, always, often, important, until, children, early, learned, perhaps, past, instead, carefully, language, correct, reasons, difference, history, north, seven, famous, late, pay, they're
4th - there, their, using, through, because, does, again, always, it's, usually, true, perhaps, certain, past, instead, either, understand, moon, animals, mind, outside, they're
Things to be aware of:
THE CLASS COULD USE PENCILS, WE'RE OUT. THANKS!
I'm also looking for a donation of spiral notebooks (just those 70 page cheapy ones)
* NO SCHOOL Monday the 26th for teacher grading day.
* COLOR WAR Day Friday, February 20th. More info coming.
* All School Movie Night - Friday, February 20th, 5:30-7:30pm
Writing Soon students will begin doing research on a particular explorer (5th grade will research US History explorers, 4th grade will research WA state explorers). They will be creating a poster with well-written informative paragraphs. We are also working hard on writing complete summaries and main ideas of various types of text.
Math January brings fractions. We are exploring fractions in many ways: using money, geometrical shapes on a grid, clock/time, ordering on a number line, adding and subtracting. It's an exciting month in Math.
Science
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 - there's, their, always, often, important, until, children, early, learned, perhaps, past, instead, carefully, language, correct, reasons, difference, history, north, seven, famous, late, pay, they're
4th - there, their, using, through, because, does, again, always, it's, usually, true, perhaps, certain, past, instead, either, understand, moon, animals, mind, outside, they're
Things to be aware of:
THE CLASS COULD USE PENCILS, WE'RE OUT. THANKS!
I'm also looking for a donation of spiral notebooks (just those 70 page cheapy ones)
* NO SCHOOL Monday the 26th for teacher grading day.
* COLOR WAR Day Friday, February 20th. More info coming.
* All School Movie Night - Friday, February 20th, 5:30-7:30pm