Good Evening Families!
I hope everyone had a restful weekend. This one sure did go by fast.
Important:
- Unit 1 math test on Tuesday. Your child was sent home with their unit one pretest to study from.
- Half day Friday, dismissal at 11:45
- Halloween school parade has been changed to Halloween, Tuesday the 31st.
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 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 multiplication concepts.
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 force and motion.
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.
- Theme- The one or two word main idea of a story. Example- friendship, honesty, respect.
- Lead- The first sentence in your writing that “hooks” the reader.
- Data- A collection of facts such as numbers or words that can be displayed on a graph.
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