I hope everyone enjoyed Thanksgiving with people you care about. The weekend flew by for me and I am ready to make the next month amazing in room 30. Santa Shop is going on this week. Our preview is today. Students will add our shopping time slot in their planners today.

Spelling: https://quizlet.com/_4689uh?x=1jqt&i=xp8qf

Math: We are focusing on long division and checking our answers with multiplication.

Science: We are digging deeper into waves and starting to look at the size and uses of wave types like x-rays, or sound waves.

Social Studies: We are working on writing a realistic fiction story based upon the orphan trains in the early 1920’s. Students will be writing from the point of view of a child on one of those trains and they will be incorporating true information from our unit.

Writing: We are reading and writing tall tales. Students will learn to use different types of creative writing types like personification, simile, and metaphors. We are getting our natural disaster writing published and ready for display.

Daily 5: We are focusing on using context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words, determining theme of a narrative, and determining the point of view used by the author to tell a story. We must be able to pull out the keywords that tell us the point of view.

Have a great week!