Dear Parents,
We’re going to have a great upcoming week. Below is a short description of what’s coming up and important links and/or announcements:
Reader’s Workshop
The kids will move to a focus on nonfiction texts. We will be visiting the Woodbury library to get a handle on where to find nonfiction texts and then the week will be spent on learning about how to read nonfiction because it is different that reading fiction books. The kids will still be reading fiction books at home and now we have added an expectation of doing some work each day related to their fiction book and the following tasks:
Understanding Characters as friends, seeing different sides to characters, making strong predictions, growing ideas about characters, asking questions and answering them in deep ways, and supporting thinking with evidence from the book.
Writer’s Workshop
Next week, the kids will move on from review writing and onto writing (and eventually giving) persuasive speeches. We’ll discuss important causes and what we can do to get people on our side.
Math
We will continue working percentages all next week and get ready for our end of unit assessment next Wednesday November 13th.
History
The students will continue their pyramid projects. This week they made inspiration boards to define their plans. Next week, they will make drawings of their planned pyramid.
Science
Students will continue working on their science fair projects and we will begin our next Science textbook.
Thank you,
Mr. Gray
