Good afternoon Haigh families! Sorry for the delay in this post, the site was not working last night. I sincerely hope you all had a great Thanksgiving break with family and friends. I know I sure did!
Reminders for the week:
- Wednesday–Detroit Pistons assembly!! Students may dress in team gear 🙂
- Thursday– Learning Gizmos game night 5:30-6:30, come on out for a FUN, LEARNING evening 🙂
- Student lock-in forms went home today. If you are interested in having your child attend (Friday the 13th) please be sure to read the BRIGHT ORANGE paper in your child’s folder and send in slip and money by Friday the 6th. Please note that student selection is through a raffle selection by the PTA.
Academic Vocabulary:
- Historian- a person who studies the past.
- Round- to find what the number is closest to according to it’s place value.
- Primary Source- records made by people who saw or took place in an event.
- Publish- to write the final copy of your writing.
- Artifact- things from the past that are left for us to study.
This week in reading we will continue to review non-fiction text features and apply strategies to help us understand how to comprehend non-fiction texts. Students are having a lot of fun reading high interest articles from our subscription to Scholastic News. Today we read about the Flint water crises. I was surprised to hear that not many students were aware of it!
In writing this week we will learn the components of a friendly and practice writing some to our friends. Our end result will be writing thank you letters to representative Abdullah Hammoud who so kindly donated the rest of the funds needed for the Lansing trip next week 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
In math this week we will be working on rounding to the tens and hundreds. We will also begin to look at and review addition and subtraction strategies.
In social studies we will be learning about the Native Americans in Michigan.
In science we will be learning how to identify different clouds and how this knowledge can help us predict the weather.
Looking forward to a great week ahead!
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