August 19-23

Here's our update for the week of August 19-23!

Reading: This week’s basal story is Island of the Blue Dolphins. The strategy for this week is inferring. The skills for the week are determining theme and setting. Students have been reading chapters from their book clubs and will be participating in two book club meetings this week. Since theme and setting are two big ideas, we are focusing on theme during our basal reading block and setting during our book club meetings.

Writing: Students will continue to work in their writer’s notebook using skills focused on during mini lessons. We will continue with the weekly grammar section during the Writing block. This week we are focusing on action verbs.

Math: Students will finish Unit 1 by taking a test on Tuesday. Wednesday will start the beginning of Unit 2. The students will be learning about estimation, addition of whole numbers and decimals, and continuing to work on mental math strategies of multiplying and dividing by powers of ten.

Science: Students in Physical Science will be setting up their Science notebook. Students will be taking notes on key vocabulary and ideas from this week’s chapter. Students will also participate in hands-on activities to learn about mass and volume of different objects.

Social Studies: Please contact your child's Social Studies teacher for information about this subject.

 

As always, let us know if you have any questions!!!!

Mrs. Pfahler and Miss Scott