Reading: This week in reading, we will be doing a variety of activities. The students will continue working on their fluency through lessons focusing on the elements of fluency: accuracy, speed, comprehension, and expression. I will also be conducting formal reading conferences with each of the students to listen to their fluency, and the students will be writing reflections in their response journals. We will also be starting a mini research project. This week the students will learn about relevant and reliable information. We look over the questions and discuss them. Then on Friday they will select their groups and their topic. The focus skills being taught this week are ask and respond to open ended questions, making connections to real world situations or related topics before and during reading, making inferences and drawing conclusions. These skills will be taught with picture books this week and they will carry over to the research project. The students will also work on these skills with their independent reading book.
Grammar: We will be focusing on nouns and verbs this week.
Grammar: We will be focusing on nouns and verbs this week.
Math: In math we are on unit 1. The first lessons of this unit focused on number models and arrays. Last week we focused on finding all the factors of a number and the divisibility rules for 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, and 10. This week we will learn about prime and composite numbers and square numbers. A prime number has exactly two factors and a composite number has more than two. The students will also learn how to find the square root of a number.
Writing: This week in writing, we will be doing a variety of activities. The students will look at the steps of the writing process and establish a writer's workshop routine. During writer's workshop, I will read the book Fortunately, and the students will create their own Fortunately book. Lessons on revising and editing will be incorporated into their Fortunately book.
Science: We have been working on our weather unit. The students watched videos on storms, weather instruments, and hurricanes at the beginning of the unit. Then they learned about the layers of the atmosphere. The layers are troposphere, stratosphere, ozone layer, mesosphere, ionosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere. Last week we continued learning about the layers of the atmosphere and also learned about two of the weather instruments. The wind vane tells the direction in which the wind is blowing, and the anemometer tells the speed of the wind. This week the students will learn about the barometer. The barometer measures the atmospheric pressure.
Social Studies: We will start social studies after we finish our science unit.
Spelling Unit 1:
master ahead build front meant bread ready busy quit mother above
does advantage business sweater plastic balance limit among dozen
activity building heavy biscuit purpose astonish symmetric cyclical
abandon subsequent expository abundant accomplish mishap extraordinary
atmosphere exploration weather territory troposphere
Important Dates:
No School Monday, September 5
No School Tuesday, September 6
Spelling Test Wednesday, September 7
Band & Orchestra Registration at Hill 4:00 - 8:00 on Friday, September 9
5P Math Test Wednesday, September 14
Curriculum night Thursday, September 15
Social Studies: We will start social studies after we finish our science unit.
Spelling Unit 1:
master ahead build front meant bread ready busy quit mother above
does advantage business sweater plastic balance limit among dozen
activity building heavy biscuit purpose astonish symmetric cyclical
abandon subsequent expository abundant accomplish mishap extraordinary
atmosphere exploration weather territory troposphere
Important Dates:
No School Monday, September 5
No School Tuesday, September 6
Spelling Test Wednesday, September 7
Band & Orchestra Registration at Hill 4:00 - 8:00 on Friday, September 9
5P Math Test Wednesday, September 14
Curriculum night Thursday, September 15
