For the week of: October
19-23
Reminders:
Library Day on Thursday!
Language Arts
Writing
- We
will start our Poetry Unit
- This
week we will focus on writing acrostic, diamante and concrete poetry.
- Spelling
Vocabulary Words: theme, tone, imagery, speaker and mood. Words
and definitions will be sent home on Mondays. Students need to complete
their sentences at home. They will keep this paper at home to use as a
study sheet for learning the spelling and meaning of each word, as well as
how to use it in a sentence correctly.
Reading
- This
week we will learn about different poetic structures, how to analyze
poetry, identify figurative language and read different poems in class.
- Reading
and responding to leveled readers for independent/reading groups.
- The
Harvest Birds selection
from the Journey's Book. We will not be using our Journey’s
book in class due to our poetry unit.
The ready selection will be assigned as homework on Tuesday and
students will have until Friday to complete the questions and turn in the
yellow comprehension packet. Parents, please be sure to continue to
check over your child's work and sign the cover page, especially since we
aren’t using the story in class.
Science
- Properties
and State of Matter
- Begin
Changing States of Matter
Math
- Complete
unit 4 on place value
- Ordering
and comparing numbers
- Find
4 digit numbers on a number line
- Numbers
to 9,999 problem solving
- Unit
test on Thursday or Friday
