Good afternoon Haigh families 🙂 I hope you have all enjoyed Thanksgiving with your families and got a chance to spend some good quality time with your loved ones. My family and I took a road trip to Tennessee to visit family. The weather was an amazing 65 degrees and sunny. Nothing like watching the lions game on the patio on Thanksgiving!
Reminders for the week:
- Popcorn sale this week; popcorn will be served Friday afternoon
- PBIS celebration on Friday; Turkey bowling
- ****I can’t believe Friday is the last day of November already!****
This week in reading we will be reviewing main idea and details. We will look at a variety of texts and passages to determine the main idea in a non-fiction text. In writing last week we learned how to write a main idea/meat paragraph for an information paper. We wrote a model one together, color coded it, and practiced writing one paragraph about wild turkeys. This week we will begin a new informational paper and work our way through the writing process.
As discussed at conferences, please make sure your child is reading at least 25 minutes at home each night. Remember, they can read their book of choice, log on to razzkids.com, and should be reading their reading group book each night. I try to remind them to bring this book home each night along with their math book. Extra practice and repeated readings go a long way to help improve your child’s fluency, word recognition, and vocabulary.
In math this week we will be working on adding/subtracting using the standard algorithm to solve problems. We will apply rounding of numbers to help us determine if our answers are reasonable.
In social studies last week we learned about Native Americans in Michigan. This week we will learn about explorers who came to Michigan from France and their interactions with the Native Americans.
In science this week we will continue to talk about severe weather with a focus on observing different cloud types to determine the weather.
Academic Vocabulary:
- Culture- The way of life for a group of people.
- Main idea- What the text is mostly about in one strong sentence.
- Artifact- An object from the past that tells about the culture of an area.
- Kilogram- A measure of metric weight that is large.
- Nonfiction- A genre of text that is real and provides facts and information to the reader.
I am looking forward to a great week back with my students 🙂
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