Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you and your family had a wonderful holiday weekend. Below is a brief overview of what we'll be up to this week in the classroom.
Reading: Students will continue to study characterization clues and make inferences about a character based on these clues. Specifically, students will identify a character's actions, dialogue, thoughts, and feelings to make inferences about the character's personality traits. They will also learn that characters often experience a change or learn a lesson within the plot of a story. Students will continue to study the characters in Every Living Thing, as well as other short leveled texts.
Writing: Students will compose an opinion piece and support their opinions with evidence from the text this week. Then, students will publish and post this piece.
Science: Our class will explore electromagnets and electromagnetism in class this week as we wrap up our final section of the electricity unit.
Math: Unit 3 will kick off with a review of fraction concepts. I will review equivalent fractions, mixed numbers, and strategies for comparing fractions with students.
40 Book Challenge: Check in and reading response #3 are due this Thursday. Students should have the response posted to their Kidblog account and their book list updated.
Picture Day is Tomorrow, December 3rd