Week of February 17th

Week of February 17th

 

I hope everyone had a wonderful and LONG weekend! :)

Reading: Our weekly reading story this week is The Gymnast. We will work on drawing conclusions from the text and will also practice using pictures in the story to help us visualize. These are both tools that will help students as we practice reading with accuracy and comprehending the texts we read.

Students have been working extremely hard over the past couple weeks on writing constructed responses over the texts we read. We have focused on using evidence from the texts to support our answers. This week students will show off what they have learned in a constructed response contest!

Students did an amazing job analyzing poetry in stations last week. We will continue analyzing a few different poems as a class to make sure this is a skill we have mastered!

Math: We will begin Unit 10 this week, which will introduce students to prealgebra concepts and skills. Students will use Hands-On equations, which means making sure that the value of one side must equal the value on the other side (in order to find the value of x). We will be using Hands-On equations instead of the pan-balance model that is used in Lessons 10.1 and 10.2 of Everyday Math. Students will still have Math Boxes as homework, but will have separate homework instead of completing the Study Links for these two lessons. Unit 10 will also cover representing relationships as algebraic expressions, generating input-output tables, and linking data in tables to corresponding points on coordinate graphs.

Writing: Last week students responded to writing prompt “My New Business” using the writing process we have worked on over the last couple weeks. This week in writing we will use this prompt to practice rereading and editing our writing. I will be conferencing with students individually to discuss what students did well and also to pick two things students would like to improve.

Bullying: This week we will finish making our “My Roar Is..” posters. I have been extremely impressed with these! Students have taken this seriously and have really used this opportunity to reflect on how they can take a stand against bullying. I am so proud of them. Once these statements are complete we will be able to work on some choreography for our “Roar” dance.

Spelling: Students will have a spelling test on Thursday over the words for The Gymnast.

Social Studies: Please contact your child’s Social Studies teacher for an update in this subject.

Science: Please contact Mrs. Smith for an update in this subject!

Other Notes:

I will be handing back Spelling Tests and Unit 9 Math Tests on Tuesday. Students who have scored a C or below on the tests can make corrections on a separate sheet of paper and return these to me no later than Friday.

I am still using Mrs. Pfahler’s email currently. However, I am hoping to get mine set up no later than Wednesday. I will be sure to send an email to all parents when this happens. I know some parents have emailed my school email address and have not heard back. This is because I have not been able to access mine yet. I apologize for any confusion! Please contact me on Mrs. Pfahler’s email if you have any questions or concerns.

This Friday our wonderful “Juggling Masters” will perform from 2:00 to 3:00pm in the K-Lab!

 

Please contact me with any questions or concerns,

Miss Hetzner