Welcome back to Quarter 2! I hope you all enjoyed a wonderful fall break! We will return tomorrow, Tuesday, 10/3, for a full day.
Reminder to please turn in completed Camp Health History forms as soon as possible. And the Butter Braid fundraiser will be due on Friday, 10/20/17.
Here is what is happening this week:
Thursday: VAPA
This is what we will be learning about:
Language Arts: We will begin Unit 3 of Benchmark, Relationships in Nature (nonfiction text), by reading about Rachel Carson, Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir. We will work on identifying key details, summarizing, determining author’s point of view, analyzing structure of a text, and figurative language.
Writing: We will learn about online research, how to identify website bias, using key words to search for relevant sources, and paraphrasing information to take notes on a topic.
Students will also be writing a thank you letter for the Donorschoose flexible seating materials that we received over the summer. The letter will be due on Friday and will be sent to donors who contributed to the project.
Read Aloud: Students will work in groups to complete their book trailer on 90 Miles to Havana. My goal is to finish the trailers in the next two weeks and have them published on their blogs.
Math: We will begin Module 2, Arithmetic Operations including Division of Fractions. I will send home a parent resource for the first topic this week for you to use as a guide. Here is the link to the parent resources. Be sure your child is completing 15 minutes of Tenmarks each night during the week.
Science: Students will rotate to Mrs. Benson to learn about environmental impact.
PE: Students will rotate to Ms. Greenlee for chasing games.
