Good Evening Families!
I hope everyone had a restful weekend. This one sure did go by fast.
Important: Unit 1 math test tomorrow. Your child was sent home with their unit one pretest to study from. We went over it in class on Friday. We had a great time last week creating graphs by using M & M’s as our data. It was delicious!
We will continue to work on theme as we read a variety of myths. We will work on supporting our ideas with evidence from the text. Students will learn to use the CER (Claim, evidence, reasoning) strategy to help them fully support their claim.
In writing we will begin to write our personal narratives. We will focus on using red flag transition words to move our writing along. We will also learn the importance of word choice and use our word collectors and synonym resource sheet to help us use strong word choice. Finally, we will learn how to compose a strong ending to our personal narratives. We will be celebrating our hard work with an authors celebration at the end of the week.
We will begin our week with our unit 1 math test and our unit 2 pretest. We will begin to work on unit 2 which consists of addition and subtraction concepts as well as story problems. We will be doing a plethora of word problems and use the model drawing strategy to help us.
In social studies we will look at the different regions that Michigan is part of. We will also learn about Michigan’s natural resources.
In science we will continue to learn about plant adaptations.
Academic Vocabulary:
- Myth-A fictional story that explains why something is the way it is.
- Climate-The weather conditions over a long period of time.
- Sum-The answer to an addition problem.
- Lead- The first sentence in your writing that “hooks” the reader.
- Observation-To look at something closely to determine a good description of it.
Please join us for an informational Parent Meeting on Thursday 10/20 at 8:00-8:30 in Room 32. We will discuss Home Routines, Helpful Websites, Homework, and Positive Reinforcement.
Looking forward to a great week!
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