November 22nd

Friday, November 22nd 

Writer’s Workshop

We have started working on persuasive writing.  Some of the great mentor texts we have been reading are Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late and Click Clack Moo. Your child has been working hard on their persuasive piece all week. They pretended that they were a turkey and had to persuade people not to eat them for Thanksgiving. They did a wonderful job, and we have hung them in the hallway. We will continue to work on persuasive writing next week. Next, your child will be choosing the topic and whom they would like to persuade.

       

Reader’s Workshop

We are finishing up our study of dialogue.  Your child has been working hard on being a reading detective.  Students searched their books during independent reading for examples of different types of dialogue. They learned about simple dialogue, no-said dialogue, and continuation dialogue. We noticed one book can have all three different types of dialogue such as Junie B Jones and Henry and Mudge! They have also learned the difference between 1st person dialogue and 3rd person dialogue. We will now be starting our punctuation unit. Your child will be learning the names of punctuation marks, what the punctuation marks looks like, the job of the punctuation marks, and examples from different texts.

Math Workshop

We have begun unit four by taking the unit four pre-test. We are working on story problems and different ways to solve them. They have learned Change-to-More diagrams and Parts-and-Total diagrams to help them organize and solve the story problems. Many of our story problems have involved temperature changes. Your child has learned about degrees Fahrenheit, degrees Celsius, and degree marks. Another math strategy we have been working on is using estimation to solve problems. We have done this by using Ballpark Estimation. This can be a difficult concept to learn, please continue to do HomeLinks with your child.

Word Study

We continued learning about Onsets and Rimes by looking at words that end in -ice, -ide, and –ine. Then, we reviewed high frequency words by playing Follow the Path. We also learned what antonyms are. They played Concentration, which is like Memory using antonyms. We finished up the week with talking about syllables. Students played Syllable Lotto. They also learned how to make singular words plural using -s and -es endings.                      

Social Studies

We are working on the Geography of Our Community Unit. As cartographers, we made a pirate map of where there is buried treasure. We also learned about man-made features and natural features on a map.

 

Special News & Reminders

·        Thursday, November 28^th – NO SCHOOL – Happy Thanksgiving!

·        Friday, November 29^th – NO SCHOOL

·        Monday, December 2^nd - NO SCHOOL