Week of March 17th

Week of March 17th

 

Reading: Our weekly reading story this week is Journey to the Center of the Earth. We will practice identifying the cause and effects in the story to help us better understand what we are reading. This week in reading we will be spending a lot of time on the various elements of fiction and nonfiction texts. Today we made an anchor chart, which we will use throughout the week as we identify texts as fiction and nonfiction. In stations, students will focus on identifying the main idea and supporting details, analyzing characters, and identifying the text features of their nonfiction National Geographic,   

 

Math: Students will take the Unit 11 this Friday. This week we will be covering surface area and will also get in a lot of practice with volume of the 3D shapes we have been working with. Study guides will be due on Thursday, as we will use these to review for the test.  

 

 

Writing: Today we began our compare and contrast writing unit. The students and I filled out a T chart after reading about 2 different types of snakes. Students began a rough draft paragraph using this graphic organizer. Students will create their own T chart comparing and contrasting an animal of their choice this week. Students will use this chart as a foundation for the compare and contrast paragraphs they will develop later on this week.

 

 

Spelling: Students will have a spelling test on Thursday over the words for Journey to the Center of the Earth.

 

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:

·         Students will be watching the Social Health video this Friday afternoon. Please contact Jan Kennedy, the school nurse with any questions.

·         I am SO proud of everyone for their hard work on ISTEP last week! I am confident that our hard work over the last couple months is really paying off J

Week of March 3rd

Reading: Our weekly reading story this week is The Unsinkable Wreck of the R.M.S Titanic. I think the students will really enjoy this story! We will practice using the graphic sources in the text to help us better understand what we are reading. In stations, students will work on finding the main idea and supporting details, using details from texts to make inferences, analyzing characters in the texts we read, and responding to nonfiction texts with constructed responses.

 

Math: Students will take the Unit 10 test on Monday. This week we will begin Unit 11, which covers finding the volume of various 3D shapes. Throughout the unit we will practice identifying the various properties (surfaces, edges, vertices) of the different shapes (cylinders, prisms, pyramids, cones, cubes). Students will learn to calculate surface area, volume, and capacity.

 

Writing: This week in writing students will look at past writing pieces to evaluate the six writing traits. I will also finish conferencing with students regarding their writing prompt from a few weeks ago. We will also spend a day working on developing “catchy” titles. On Thursday, we will be dressing up as the “ISTEP Lady”. This will be a fun day to celebrate all of our hard work in writing over the last month! We will discuss what our ISTEP lady wants us to remember and each student will add a post-it with the most important thing they want to remember in regards to their writing.

 

Spelling: Students will have a spelling test on Thursday over the words for The Unsinkable Wreck of the R.M.S Titanic.

 

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:

 

*We will be holding Battle of the Books next Monday, March 10^th. Therefore, students will be expected to turn in all summaries for their Battle Books and take all quizzes by this Friday. I will allow students time in the morning to take these quizzes, and also during recess.

 

*Reading Counts is due next Monday, March 10^th as well. I will allow students to work on these quizzes in the morning and during recess.

*We will have the ISTEP pep rally this Friday in the K-Lab from 2:40-3:15. It will be a lot of fun! If any parents would like to donate snacks for ISTEP please have students bring them in this week. I will be providing students with snacks every morning, but if you would like to contribute that would be wonderful! Also, I have received quite a few letters from parents to give to students during ISTEP week. If you would like your child to have one please feel free to turn them in to me this week! I will be writing a letter to each student, but I’m sure they would love some words of encouragement from home J

 

 

 

Please contact me with any questions or concerns,

 

Miss Hetzner