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
The kids will continue our unit on Deep Study of Character. Next week we will look at how troubles in stories turn into motifs, which turn into themes. We may also start looking for symbolism in our books.
Writer’s Workshop
The kids will continue in our new journalism unit.
Math
We will work on the first half of our Area and Surface Area (Geometry Unit). We will work on Area and Surface Area up until spring break, then after spring break we will switch to statistics.
History
We will start studying our next Ancient Civilization: Greece.The kids will compare and contrast Athens and Sparta and study the wars between Greece and Persia.
Science
The kids will work with Miss Stevens in science lab.
Thank you,
Mr. Gray