Welcome to week 5! Remember that we have Curriculum Night on Thursday the 30th. 4th through 6th grade classrooms will be presenting from 7:30 to 8:00 and of course the PTA will have information booths setup in the cafetorium beforehand.
On to the week:
This week in writing we will be continuing to work through our new writing curriculum. The kids have truly enjoyed working through the first few exercises of this curriculum. We can already see that the kids are more interested and excited to be writing down their thoughts.
This week in reading we will be continuing to move our way through Maniac Magee. We will continue to work on summarizing, questioning, and learning how to discuss those topics within small peer groups. In addition, we will be starting our investigation into the history of language. We will be learning about how the English language has come about from pieces of the latin and romance languages. With this investigation we will begin to grock each day, which means we will be learning the meaning of roots, prefixes, and suffixes. It should be very eye opening!
This week in math we will adding and subtracting numbers with decimals. In addition, we will be beginning to pull small groups of students during our afternoon periods to work on some of the holes that they have in their learning as well as teaching students math fact strategies. We are very hopeful that this extra effort will help all of our students become more confident and successful in math this year.
That's it for now. Remember curriculum night on Thursday is a great time to come and meet us and ask any questions that have come up during our first month of school.
Thanks
Allyn Woods and Alaina Therriault
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