We have successfully survived the first week of school! I hope that your students enjoyed our first week as much as I did. This a wonderful group of scholars who have a positive attitude and a desire to learn and grow. I am looking forward to a great year!
I will be sending out this newsletter weekly in order to keep you informed of the content we are covering in class, as well as any announcements, our wish lists, and tests, projects, or quizzes. Please be sure to subscribe via email and you will always be kept up to date on any new posts.
Math: We started our unit of week by taking a pre-test, and then began our first chapter in Singapore on place value and estimation. Next week we will be continuing this unit and will review finding factors and multiples of numbers and will learn prime factorization. We also began looking at how to create bar models in problem solving.
Literature: To prepare for our upcoming literature study of Voyage of the Dawn Treader we took time to review the plot and characters of Prince Caspian. Monday we will begin reading Voyage. There will be a literature study to go along with the reading each day that will focus on vocabulary and comprehension.
I will be sending out this newsletter weekly in order to keep you informed of the content we are covering in class, as well as any announcements, our wish lists, and tests, projects, or quizzes. Please be sure to subscribe via email and you will always be kept up to date on any new posts.
Math: We started our unit of week by taking a pre-test, and then began our first chapter in Singapore on place value and estimation. Next week we will be continuing this unit and will review finding factors and multiples of numbers and will learn prime factorization. We also began looking at how to create bar models in problem solving.
Literature: To prepare for our upcoming literature study of Voyage of the Dawn Treader we took time to review the plot and characters of Prince Caspian. Monday we will begin reading Voyage. There will be a literature study to go along with the reading each day that will focus on vocabulary and comprehension.
Writing/Grammar: We started the year by writing a paragraph and creating an illustrated hand to share about who we are. This week we will begin presenting these to the class. We also discussed the denotative and connotative meaning of words, and set learning goals. Next week we will focus on editing and begin a review of sentence diagramming simple subject/verb sentences.
History: The first activity of the year was a review of world geography and the location of the continents and oceans. We also looked at latitude and longitude and how lines of lattitude effect climate. Next week we will continue our study of Geography by examining time zones and different types of maps. Students should be bringing home their notebooks and studying thier vocabulary note cards. We will be taking a quiz over this next Thursday.
History: The first activity of the year was a review of world geography and the location of the continents and oceans. We also looked at latitude and longitude and how lines of lattitude effect climate. Next week we will continue our study of Geography by examining time zones and different types of maps. Students should be bringing home their notebooks and studying thier vocabulary note cards. We will be taking a quiz over this next Thursday.
Science: To begin thinking like scientists our first unit is a study of the Scientific Method. We have uncovered the difference between testable and un-testable questions as well as how to find independent and dependent variables and controls in experiments. Next week we will be putting this knowledge to practice by creating a paper airplane lab.
Upcoming Tests/Quizzes
- Thursday, August 20
Wish List:
- Thank you so much for supplying your students with all of their supplies, at this time we are doing very well!
Important Dates:
- You are cordially invited to our Curriculum Night event, taking place on Thursday, August 20th from 6:00pm - 7:55pm. The purpose of this event is to acquaint you with the school's curriculum and individual classroom procedures across
all grade levels. Teachers will give parents an opportunity to ask questions; we look forward to seeing you all at this event.
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