We had a fabulous week and hope you did also!
Thank you to everyone who sent in supplies or helped with Colonial Day. The kids were amazing and had a lot of fun! Be sure to check out Twitter for pictures!
As a reminder, we will not be sending home Friday folders or a blog post next week. This week's blog will cover next week and the week after break. Be sure to check out Twitter for pictures from all our activities and learning.
Important Upcoming Events
- Grinch Day: Thursday, December 19
- We will have fun Grinch related activities for the kids to do during the day.
- Students can dress up as characters from the Grinch if they would like to.
- Holiday Party: Friday, December 20 from 1:45 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
- No School: December 23-January 3
- Return to School: Monday, January 6
- January 14: Ross kids saying the Pledge of Allegiance on KOMU
- January 16: Mottaz kids saying the Pledge of Allegiance on KOMU
Our Learning
Reading
- Next week, we will wrap up our genre study of narrative nonfiction. The students have learned that narrative nonfiction is a true story about someone's life. The difference between expository and narrative nonfiction is that narrative nonfiction is written as a story and expository is more facts.
- After break, we will start our next genre study. This genre study is over fiction. The main characteristics of a fiction story are it has made-up characters, setting and events, has a beginning, middle and end and is sometimes told by a narrator instead of a character in the story.
- We will be discussing different types of fiction as well.
Writing
- Next week and the week after break, we will be working on our personal narrative stories. This week student's chose their topic and their three main events. Next week, we will start adding details to the events and then after break, we will be editing and revising their writing.
Math
- Thank you to everyone who has sent back in your student's Unit 4 math test. If you have not sent it in yet, please do so. This allows us to know you have seen and reviewed the test with your student.
- Our next unit is over word problems and different strategies to solve word problems. Please continue to practice basic facts with your student as it makes the word problems easier when they know the facts in a snap.
Science
- Yesterday, we did an activity in science to identify how the sun affects the temperatures on earth. We will continue to discuss this and then move into how the temperature and the sun change determine the temperature of water and if it is solid or liquid.
- We will then move into identifying where salt water and fresh water are located.
Fundations
- We have been learning about open syllable words and how the vowels make a long sound.
- Next week, we will be learning about the different sounds "y" makes at the end of a word based on the number of syllables.
- The trick words are city, every, family, eight, large and change.
- Our goal is to finish Unit 7 before break, if not, we will wrap it up after break.
- After break, we will start Unit 8 which includes r-controlled syllables.
Have a fabulous weekend!
Kate and Elizabeth
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