Sunday, November 3, 2019

This Week In Our Classroom...

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!  I can't say enough how happy I am to be back at school.  Thank you for all of your patience and support, I know it was a challenging time for everyone.

This week we will jump right back into our curriculum.   We will also support our school at the Walk-a-Thon this Wednesday, November 6th.  If you haven't signed up online yet, please do so!

In the reading block, we'll wrap up our literature circles and and review determining the main idea and supporting details.  I will also review summarizing with the students.  On Thursday, as long as the end of the quarter date does not change, we will take our final unit assessment.

During writing, students will continue to develop essays using a five paragraph format.  Students will begin forming an opinion about a text and using evidence from the text to support their opinions this week.  We will practice finding the most supportive/strongest evidence to support our ideas.

Students will learn to find factors and multiples in math this week, as well as distinguish between prime and composite numbers.  Later in the week, students will work in small teams to solve a problem involving factors and multiples.

In science, students will continue to study circuits.  They will learn the difference between a conductor and an insulator as well as how to distinguish between series circuits and parallel circuits.

Conferences:  As long as the calendar remains the same, conferences will take place next week.  I will send home conference preference sheets tomorrow or Tuesday.  Please return as soon as possible.  

40 Book Challenge second essay is due this Thursday!  Please make sure your child posts his/her to the student blog.

Thank you again for all of your patience over the past couple of weeks.  I am looking forward to seeing you all at conferences next week!