Friday, January 8, 2016

Hadden's Happenings

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