April 20 - 24

We have quite a few changes this week!

First, this is our last week with Miss Whiteman as our student teacher.  She will be in and out of the classroom this week while she observes other classes.  The kiddos have really appreciated and learned from Miss Whiteman, and we are sad to see her go.  It is not the same around here without her!

Also, the daily homework assignment has changed for the evening.  The students, as always, will be asked to read nightly.  This, of course, makes practicing their spelling words more difficult without the guided work of a worksheet.  They can do many things to practice their words: have mock spelling tests, sort by spelling patterns, write the words in sentences, sort by the number of letters or beginning letters, write them in various colors, etc.

Here is a peak at our learning for the week:

Reading:  The students are beginning Unit 6: Extreme Environments.  They will be learning about various environments and the adaptations that plants and animals have in order to live in those places.
The strategies that they will be using this week to understand their reading is previewing, skimming and scanning, comparing and contrasting, and asking and answering questions.

Vocabulary: habitat, adaptation, migrate

Spelling: Words with "ough" and "augh"

Writing: Develop the story elements and order of events for their fiction narratives.  We will be turning these into fantastic little chapter books!

Math: Explore polygons and, more specifically, quadrilaterals.  The students will learn about the traits of squares, rectangles, rhombuses, parallelograms, and trapezoids.  Later in the week, we will be making a set of tangrams.

Math Review:  Multiplication/Division facts

Thank you!
Miss Kimpton