Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Week of April 7th


Reading: Our weekly reading story this week is Ghost Towns of the American West. This week we are focusing on making generalizations about the texts we read. Students will have a lot of practice with this reading strategy throughout the week. In stations, students will work on identifying fiction and nonfiction texts, as well as identifying the main idea and theme of various texts. We will be starting up book clubs in guided reading this week. We will also begin doing a daily review over word choice, main idea, sentence structure, figurative language, and context clues. This will be a quick ten minute review I am incorporating in class every day. This will be a great way to get students ready for ISTEP!

 

 

Math: This week we will begin Unit 12 in math. This chapter will cover probably, ratios, rates, least common multiple, and greatest common factor. These are very important concepts and ones that students will certainly have to work hard at understanding. I will be handing back Unit 11 math tests tomorrow with Tuesday folders. If students scored a C or below and would like to correct these they will have until Monday to return them to me.

 

 

Writing: This week in writing students will be working on word choice. We will work on using more descriptive verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs to make our writing more exciting. Students will work with partners throughout the week to practice using WOW words in their writing.

 

 

 

Spelling: Students will have a spelling test on Thursday over the words for Ghost Towns of the American West.

 

 

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

 

 

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

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