Quarter 3/Week 8

   The 3rd quarter only has only one more week! I am going to be very sad to see this class go...I enjoy each and everyone of my students so much!  Anyway..here is a summary of our week and a preview of what's to come :)

In Reading, We reviewed Cafe Strategies, while also reviewing how to answer questions on our wonder stories.  We are really going to focus on how to restate our questions in our answers. This coming week we are going to start reading Mr. Blue Jeans.  This is a short book that the whole class will read, it should take us about six class periods to read.  At the end of this book, we are going to do a neat project that includes building something of your child's choice out of blue jeans. This will require blue jeans, if any of you have any old blue jeans laying around the house and are willing to donate them, please start sending them in! :)  In 4th and 5th Grade Writing, we continued to learn and write opinion paragraphs.  This next week, we will continue with opinion writing and start practicing with Smarter Balanced Prompts to prepare for the Smarter Balanced tests in April. In Projects, we continued to observe our terrariums. We will continue to do so this next week, this project will conclude at the beginning of the following week, we are hoping to get a plant professional in to talk with the students. Next week, we are going to design our own gardens on graph paper :) Your child will probably come home with some questions regarding this. 

Also, just a reminder...Auctions will be this week, please send in at least one small item with your child.  This can be anything laying around the house that is no longer needed at home or even something from the Dollar store.  

Also, thank you to those who have donated paper towels! Our class appreciates it! :)

I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!