Math: In math, we continued to work on our rounding and finished up Unit 1. Students learned how to round 3 and 4 digit numbers and did a great job using all the steps and rules of rounding. We spent the end of the week reviewing the chapter and preparing for our test on Thursday! (I originally said it would be Wednesday, but we are pushing it to Thursday due to fishing)
English: For the beginning of the year, we have been focusing our English time on grammar and sentence structure so we can make sure that we can write well when we start our Writer's Workshop next week! Students have learned sentences, sentence fragments, subjects, predicates, and more. Next Monday we will start with our first Writer's Workshop unit: Personal Narrative.
Reading: Our story in reading this week was "Opt: An Illusionary Tale". In reading, we have been focusing on comprehension. A lot of students have a hard time with this so we have been practicing restating questions when answering and making sure we are comprehending the text when reading.
Science: The beginning to our astronomy unit has been a lot of fun! Students have learned all about the rotation and orbit of the Earth and thanks to a parent suggestion, we even watched a movie about what would happen when the Earth stops spinning. Next week we take our focus from the Earth to the moon.
Social Studies: In social studies we have learned all about urban, suburban, and rural communities. We have also learned about our country's geography and how the different weather and geography affects different places. Most recently we have been focusing on the environment and the Earth's natural resources - renewable and nonrenewable. This has lined up perfectly with our fishing trip next week!
Religion: In the first chapter of religion, we learned about how God speaks to us. We read about St. Francis of Assisi and the Holy Trinity. We will review the chapter and have a quiz at the beginning of next week.
Reminders:
- Punky's Night Tuesday - dress down day Wednesday
- Fishing on Wednesday next week (I will send out an email to chaperones at the beginning of next week)
- Fitness week is next week! Field day will be on Friday
Let me know if you have any questions/comments/concerns!
Have a fabulous weekend!
- Miss Rizzo
- Miss Rizzo
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