News for the week of January 18th - 22nd
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 1st 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
