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:
Watch these announcements on video here.
Reader’s Workshop
Next week the kids will study their own reading habits as well as studying more details about characters and growing ideas about their books. They will make goals for how to be a better reader and learn to grow ideas about their characters.
Writer’s Workshop
The kids will finish revising and publishing their persuasive speech. They will also present their speech in front of the class on Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday.
Math
The next few weeks will be dedicated to in Introduction of Ratios. Here is a quick rundown of what we will be studying. Next week we will focus on modeling Ratios in double number lines. The kids will have a homework quiz on modeling double number lines on Thursday.
History
The kids will continue studying Ancient Mesopotamia and specifically focus patterns of how empires rise and fall as we look into the Ancient Assyrian and Chaledean Empires.
Science
The kids will work with Mr. Nelson in science lab and learn about expectations for in-person science lab learning. We will use our science workbook to start a unit on human body systems. We will look at the respiratory system.
Thank you,
Mr. Gray