Math- This week in math we learned various strategies for long division and how to interpret the remainder. Next week, we will be continuing to practice long division while learning how to measure angles using a protractor.
Language Arts -
Students finished up their narratives this week! It is quite an accomplishment as they journeyed through the entire writing process. It was a pleasure to get to conference with students about their writing and see what great writers they are. We will now take our research we did in science and use it to jump start us into our nonfiction writing piece.
In reading students began researching their hero candidates by using our essential questions to guide them. We will continue to work on this research in reading this week as well as synthesize our ideas to draw conclusions about our heroes. We continue to focus on nonfiction reading skills in our mini-lessons and strategy groups.
Look for a new word study list to come home on Monday. Test is on Friday.
Social Studies- Ms. Ingstrup's class took the Southwest region quiz this week. Ms. Hathaway's class will be taking this quiz on Monday. Next week, both classes will be discussing the causes and effects of the Native American land removal.
Science - In science, students made their final Wisconsin Fast Plant measurements, and then removed their plants from the water tanks as they have reached the end of their growing cycle. This week we will be removing the seed pods and opening them to observe the seeds inside. We will then discuss the research data that we've collected, compare our results with our hypotheses, and draw conclusions regarding our control plants verses our experimental plants. We also finished researching a pollinator and began planning our nonfiction book layout. Students will continue to work on this in writing class in the following weeks.
Coming home in your child's Friday folder...
-School pictures
-Directions for parent-teacher conference sign up via "Sign Up Genius"
-"Book Talk" questions to help monitor your child's reading comprehension
-New reading log
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