{"id":140,"date":"2018-11-12T07:27:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T12:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/cusumano\/?p=140"},"modified":"2018-11-12T07:27:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T12:27:05","slug":"new-units-and-new-topics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/cusumano\/2018\/11\/12\/new-units-and-new-topics\/","title":{"rendered":"New Units and New Topics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most topics circle around and continue to be discussed in the classroom&#8230;especially ideas in Language Arts.\u00a0 We try to focus on one main topic at a time, but continue to return to other topics to continue the understand and knowledge of these topics.\u00a0 In math we have taken a test, and are beginning a new topic today.\u00a0 Students have done fantastic on their most recent test and without a doubt will continue to do the same with our next unit on Integers.\u00a0 As we begin a new focus, we will continue to practice our multiplication and division facts through quick practices and group work activities.<\/p>\n<p>In Language Arts we have begun focusing on Main ideas and Themes of stories and really trying to pull out these specific parts of a story.\u00a0 Every student has been great at retelling a story and even giving the main ideas and details, but finding the themes is a new and great challenge for us.<\/p>\n<p>In Science, we continue exploring rocks and move our focus onto fossils.\u00a0 Students have enjoyed our rock study so far and I believe they will continue to enjoy studying about fossils.<\/p>\n<p>Dates to Remember:<\/p>\n<p>Monday, November 12th: Conferences 4-7<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, November 14th: Conferences 3:30-6:30<\/p>\n<p>Monday, November 19th: Okay to Say Parent Meeting in Team Room 9:00 am<\/p>\n<p>November 21st-23rd: No School<\/p>\n<p>November 26th-30th: PTA Book Sale<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most topics circle around and continue to be discussed in the classroom&#8230;especially ideas in Language Arts.\u00a0 We try to focus on one main topic at a time, but continue to return to other topics to continue the understand and knowledge of these topics.\u00a0 In math we have taken a test, and are beginning a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/cusumano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/cusumano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/cusumano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/cusumano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/cusumano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/cusumano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/cusumano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/cusumano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/cusumano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}