Below you'll find a brief overview of our week. Students will take a reading comprehension assessment as well as a math test this week.
Literacy: Our reading mini-lessons will focus on summarizing strategies. Students will learn to use main ideas and key words to write details. They will also practice straining out the unimportant details to write brief summaries. We will use a variety of texts to practice these strategies. Towards the end of the week, students will choose their first book club text. During book clubs, students will practice finding main ideas, summarizing, and conversing about important details.
Writing: This week, students will continue to practice paragraph development. I'll teach students to use transition words and we'll review using a variety of sentences in our writing. Students will choose their best piece to publish towards the end of the week.
Math: I taught the final lesson in Unit 1 on Monday. Students will review for the assessment and take the final test on Friday. Study guides are due on Wednesday. We have a guest teacher on Thursday, so students will work on a math related activity.
Social Studies: We are wrapping up our mini-unit on explorers and I am excited to begin our first science unit later in the week. Students are working on an in-class mini-project for the next couple of days.
Reminders:
- Parent-Teacher Coffee this Thursday morning, we hope you can make it!
- No School in honor of Columbus Day 10/14
- 40BC Check-In and Response #1 due 10/17
- Picture Day 10/22
