Reading-We will begin a series of lessons about bullying and empathy this week. These lessons will be presented once per week over the next few weeks. Also, the students will be exploring the Time For Kids on inventions and will be working individually on creating their own invention. These inventions will be completed on trifolds and, when complete, all four classes will have an Invention Open House. The students will number their inventions, without names, and the students will vote on a winner.
Flex.-During flex we will be focusing on fluency. We will be utilizing the reading intervention, Read Naturally, to assist with this. This reading intervention helps to develop speed and accuracy when reading. It also has a small comprehension piece as well.
Writing-First, we will finish up our Animalia projects early in the week. Then, we will begin our "All About Me from A-Z Book." This will be another creative writing activity that will be on display at Open House later in the month. Mini lessons will be taught on using correct word choice, voice, paragraphing, matching illustrations to text, editing and revising. The students will also be utilizing online dictionaries and thesauruses.
Math- We will finish up Unit 5 early in the week. The Unit 5 test will be on Thursday, January 12th. Study guides will also be due on this date. Unit 5 is the last unit of the first math journal. Students will be receiving their new journals later this week. We have also started to work on some math extended response problems with our own classes. We will continue to do this in preparation for the ISAT.
Science- We will begin the week discussing static electricity and flow into balloon experiments. Then, we will move into electrical circuits.
Have a great week everybody!!
~Mrs. Bennick
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Asheville, North Carolina
