Happy Fall Friday Families!

We had a wonderful time today celebrating the season! It was nice to take time to have some fun! 

Literacy

*We have just finished up another text, The Road to Freedom, about a mother and daughter’s journey to Canada to escape slavery in the South. We used this text to continue to talk about how a character's perspective influences their point of view. We have also continued working on summarizing stories while including a character's response to the events in the story. As we closed out this week, we moved back to nonfiction with a new text about Cesar Chavez, a migrant worker who made a significant impact on the rights of workers. We are using this text to continue our work on identifying an author’s main point and their supporting reasons and evidence.   

Writing

*We are wrapping up our first analytical piece of writing. Students read two nonfiction articles and analyzed the information. In doing so they decided whether they personally felt that cellphones should be allowed in school. Surprisingly, not all students felt that they should! As we planned for the paper, we focused on the key parts of an essay: the introduction, conclusion, and choosing key details and text support. Students should be working to finish these essays next week and will submit them for review. At some point they will be sharing them with you at home!

Math

*We are at the end of our second unit in Math which focused on fractions. The Unit 2 targets included addition and subtractions of fractions with unlike denominators and solving fraction story problems. We did a fun google form review with a Toy Story theme to help prepare for our test, which was given this morning. Feedback will be provided soon for students and families. Next week we will begin our work with Unit 3 which focuses on decimals. We will be writing decimals in standard form, word form, and expanded form, rounding decimals, and solving addition and subtraction of decimals problems.

Social Studies

*When Social Studies resumes after our science cycle, we will continue to learn about different types of governments found around the world: Democracy, Dictatorship, Parliamentary System, and Monarchy. Students will be deciding and defending which government they feel is most effective and best for the people. 

Science

*We have moved on from our work with ecosystems and have been learning about the four Earth systems: the hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, and geosphere. Students began by learning about what types of things are found in each system. Then this week we looked closer at how the systems interact to form various types of weather. 

Other Notes

If your students are involved in band or orchestra, please make sure that they have checked their schedule on the days they attend and are aware of their designated lesson time.

Upcoming Events

Nov 2 - No School - State-allocated planning day 

Nov 3 - No School - Election

Nov 11 - Veteran’s Day

Nov 13 - Half Day

Nov 20 - Trimester 1 Ends

Nov 25-27 No School