Hello Parents and Students!
Here are the reminders for this week:
1. There is no school tomorrow, Monday , October 13th, due to the Columbus Day holiday. Enjoy the extra day off.
Here's what's going on this week in the curricular areas:
Word Study: We will use this week for review of the syllable types we've learned so far this year. (Closed, Open, Open with Exceptions and Vowel Consonant Silent "e". There will be no test on Friday.
Math Acceleration: We completed our Unit 1 test last Friday. We will review this test on Tuesday and continue working on Multiplication of Fractions and will then move onto Division of Fractions. Later in the week we will begin Unit 2 which focuses on Rates, Ratios, Proportions and Percents. (The unit order has changed since last year.)
ELA (English Language Arts): Many of the skills/topics that we have been working on in ELA are ongoing. We will continue to focus on vocabulary, comprehension and grammar with our anchor text Becoming Naomi Leon. This book is also a great tool for teaching Social Emotional Learning. Our citizenship lesson for this week is on Bullying. What is a bully? How to you know when bullying is occurring? What should you do when you are faced with a bully? We will discuss these and more questions regarding bullying. We have all finished our Where I'm From poems. If time allows this week, we will be creating our digital media projects with them. They should be awesome when completed! The students will be introduced to narrative writing. We will learn what a narrative is and brainstorm some ideas as far as writing a narrative. We will also be reading a book from our reading anthology, Sees Behind Trees. As I am typing this, I am fairly confident that there's no way we will be able to accomplish all of this plus the other subjects in a four day week. Be prepared to see some of these activities pushed to next week. It's better to go deep than to skim the surface. Thank you for understanding. :-)
Social Studies: In Common Core, many of the subjects all come together or overlap. This is certainly the case with social studies and ELA . This past week, we have been studying a book entitled, Encounter. We have discussed inferences and figurative language and why an author would choose to use inferences and figurative language in text. Of course, vocabulary development and comprehension skills are ongoing. We discussed point of view and perspective and how the Taino Indians and Europeans felt when their land was taken over or when land was discovered. This week, we will continue to discuss these things and take it a step further by writing our own journal entries from these two perspectives. We will also be reading Christopher Columbus Journals. At some point, we will begin our own Think Quest pertaining to Exploration.
We have some ambitious goals this week to meet, but this is a very hard-working group of kids! We'll do our best!
As always, if you have any questions, please email me.
Have a great week!
Mrs. Bennick :-)
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Asheville, North Carolina
