Hadden's Happenings

Classroom learning for the week of January 25^th – 29^th

Language Arts:

Spelling Words:

few, field, fight, finger, foot, fresh, front, fur, gift, gold, gone, gray, grew, hair, half

Reading Workshop:

• This week we will begin our unit on drama
•  Elements of drama: drama, plot, characters/cast, scripts, dialogue, plot, theme, narrator, setting
•  Introduce Reader’s Theater and assign plays
•  If time permits, design props
•  Perform the plays for the classroom and kindergarten buddy class

Writing Workshop:

• Pourguoi Tales
• Complete first drafts
•  Edit, revise
• Write final draft
• Share with the class

Math:

• Complete geometry unit
• Take unit test and DCA
• Begin our unit on Fractions
•  Identify equivalent fractions
•  Equivalent fractions with area model
•  Equivalent fractions on a number line
• Equivalent fractions using a fraction strip

Social Studies:

• This week we will complete our unit on “Thinking like a Geographer”
• Each day we will visit a location (city) using a PowerPoint presentation
• Students will take notes about each city and create a “World Community Tour”

Hadden's Happenings

News for the week of January 18^th  - 22^nd

Monday: No School, holiday

Thursday: Library Day

Language Arts:

Spelling words: dream, drop, dry, dust, early, east, edge, else, enough, even, eye, family, feather, feel felt

Writing Workshop:

·       Introduce pourquoi tales

·       Listen and read different pourquoi tales

·       Students will begin writing their 1^st draft for pourquoi tales

Reading Workshop:

·       Read myths and identify sensory language to develop imagery

·       Introduce fables and identify theme

·       Read different fables throughout the week and identify theme

Math:

We will begin our unit on deepening understanding of sorting and classifying 2-D and 3-D figures and connecting area to multiplication

·       Explain and understand area

·       Explore area using with square units

·       Using multiplication to calculate area

·       Decomposing composite shares to calculate area

·       Review and assessment on Friday

Social Studies:

We will begin our unit on thinking like a geographer

·       What is a gropgrapher

·       Compass Rose and intermediate directions

·       Fun activities to explore directions

·       Weather, Climate and Forces of Nature

Hadden's Happenings

Blog for the week of: January 11^th – 15^th

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Spelling words for this week:

1.        cool

2.       count

3.      country

4.      course

5.      cover

6.      creek

7.       cross

8.      cup

9.      dead

10.   dear

11.      deer

12.    desk

13.    different

14.    dime

15.    dirty

Writing Workshop:

*Complete writing our first draft for our autobiographies (for those that didn’t finish this week)

*Revise and edit our autobiographies

*Write our final autobiography (Will be displayed in the hallway)

Reading Workshop:

We will begin our unit on Traveling Through Traditional Tales

*Legends and character traits (infer)

*Legends and interaction/Relationship of character and changes they undergo

*Myths and Compare/Contrast Settings

*Myth characteristics

Science:

*Learn and compare different landforms

*Explore fast and slow changes (processes) to our Earth

*Volcano/earthquakes

Math:

*Introducing the eights multiplication facts

*Reinforcing the eights facts

*Solving word problems involving multiplication (eights, ones and zeros)