Quarter 2, Week 1

Writing: We will be working on an Opinion piece on "What is your favorite season?" We will be going through all 6 steps of the writing process and students will conference with me throughout the whole process.

Projects: Students picked their Revolutionary person and they are researching them this week for the wax museum. We will have a vocab quiz on this, your child can study this on quizlet at home. I will give them classroom time as well.

Reading: We are going to start a new book this week, George Washington's socks. Students will work in their reading groups and meet with me at their allotted time to work on their reading strategies.

4th Grade Writing: We are working on dictionary skills.

Halloween: We will celebrate Halloween on Monday, October 31. This will be in the afternoon after lunch. Students can dress up all day, please no scary masks.

I hope everyone has a GREAT week!

Week 9

This first quarter has flown by!!

In Writing: We finished up learning about similes and metaphors. We will spend the rest of the week learning about different words. Students will find three words from websites that I will share with them and they will look up the following: Why do they like the word so much? What is the word's etymology? When and where was it born? How has it evolved?

In Projects: We will introduce a new Project. Students will have to pick an important person from the Revolutionary war and research that person. We will have a wax museum at the end of this project where students will dress up like this person, write a speech, and memorize this speech for the Wax Museum. This presentation we will invite parents to. When it gets closer I will let you know of the date and time. Students will choose their important person the week after fall break.

4th Grade Writing: We will finish up our Evidence Based Paragraph. The rest of the week, we will all about idioms!

Reading: I finally have all students grouped. We will start working in our groups working on various strategies using Wonder Stories.

Spelling: We will no longer be giving Spelling tests in 5th grade. We feel that it is more beneficial for students to have to use the dictionary in their writing and have to really pay close attention to their Spelling all of the time, not just once a week. We feel that if they have to take the time in their writing to ensure they are spelling all words correctly rather than just memorizing them it will help them in the long run. The spelling pertains to all assignments, vocabulary, projects, reading,etc.

I hope everyone has a Fabulous Week!

Week 8

5th Grade Writing: This week we are learning all about idioms, similes, and metaphors.

Projects: We are wrapping up our biographies. We will finish them on Tuesday and share them whole class on Wednesday and Thursday. I will have them hung outside our classroom on the bulletin boards for those of you who would like to stop and read them.

4th Grade Writing: We are learning how to write an evidence based term paper.

Reading: We are learning and reviewing new reading strategies. This week, we are working on Making a Picture or Mental Image, Reading an Appropriate Level Texts that are a Good Fit, and Reviewing all Previous Reading Strategies that we have learned. 

Auction Items: Will be next week, everyone needs to bring in at least 1 item to participate.

Maverick: Our class has earned a trip to Maverick! We will go NEXT Thursday October 13, 2016 during our PE time. Please send your child in with $5, your child will only be able to spend $5 and they will only be allowed to get two items.

I hope everyone has a GREAT week!