UPDATED! We spent all of Monday finishing up our Bridge STEAM activites. There is no homework. The Math test and Spelling test are moved to TUESDAY October 24th. You can view the numerous pictures from our activies here.
“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” – George Washington
Important Information
It is another short week! Friday is a professional development day, so there is no school for the students.
Thank you to everyone for contributing to the class party funds. The children and I appreciate it.
The Scholastics books orders should be arriving this week. Thank you to everyone who ordered.
This week our class will be creating thank you cards for the volunteer firefighters in our school community. The firefighters risk their lives in order to protect ours, and this is our way of letting them know we appreciate them.
The children did a fabulous job working cooperatively in the STEAM Lab this past week. It was difficult getting our bridges to not collapse while they were drying, but the children persevered. We let them dry over the weekend and we will test them out on Monday. I will share pictures with everyone once we have completed our work.
Everyone has instrument lessons on Tuesday.
Academics
Math: We are focusing on learning our multiplication facts, so please practice them with your child every day. We will be having our Module 3 test on Thursday.
Religion: We are learning why the Bible is important.
ELA: For this week and next, our essential question is “How do landmarks help us understand our country’s story?” The following is a list of everything we will be covering in ELA, including our vocabulary.
- Genre: Argumentative Text
- Shared Reading: Preserve and Protect
- Anchor Text: Protecting Our Parks
- Paired Selection: 5 Questions for George McDonald
- Comprehension: Ask and Answer Questions
- Captions, Maps, and Sidebars
- Central Idea and Relevant Details
- Author’s Claim
- Vocabulary Words
- carved
- clues
- grand
- landmark
- massive
- monument
- national
- traces
WRITING: We are working on personal narratives this week. We will be going through the writing process which includes brainstorming ideas, drafting, revising, peer conferencing, editting and publishing.
SPELLING: coast, coal, sold, broke, slow, float, soak, scold, note, show, toad, gold, slope, bone, foe, snail, same, weigh, bowl, program
TEST and QUIZZES
Thursday Spelling and Math Module 3 Test
Have a wonderful week! If you have any questions, please email me at [email protected]