Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone enjoys a wonderful Thanksgiving with their family and friends.  Thank you all so much for letting me teach your children and for providing me with a wonderful school year.  Enjoy your fantastic meals and good luck to all the holiday shoppers!

A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will finish our web-notes on Lesson 5.4 "The Thirteen English Colonies," and we will review for our chapter test.

ELA
Reading- We will continue to work in our ELA centers during Daily 3.  We will finish our Sitting Bull Glogsters and present our projects.

Essential Questions:  

How can challenges affect yourself and those around you (i.e family, friends, etc)?

How do characters, real and fictional, respond to challenges  (both positively & negatively)?

How are challenges conquered in literature and informational text?

Word Work- Spelling:  Students will be studying Lesson 14, and will take a test on Friday.
Vocabulary-  Students will play word games on the iPad and Scrabble.

Language Arts- Students will take their pre-test on punctuation and begin the first two lessons on sentences and proper nouns.

Science- We will finish our Lesson 6.3 notes and take an open-note quiz on Tuesday.  We will review the rest of the week and hopefully take the chapter test on Friday.
Essential Questions:  How do organisms compete and survive in an ecosystem? How do ecosystems change over time? How do people affect ecosystems?

Math-  We will finish Chapter 2 on multiplying and we will take a test on Thursday.

Important Days:

Tuesday-1st Trimester Report Cards go "Live"
Wednesday- Choir Holiday Concert at Yorktown Mall

Happy Thanksgiving!

Mood Meter

The Mood Meter is a nice way for students to check-in and self reflect on how their day is going.  The red and yellow quadrants represent high energy, where the blue and green quadrants represent low energy.  Meanwhile the red and blue quadrants represent unpleasant feelings and the yellow and green quadrants represent pleasant feelings.  We use the meter to chart where we are feeling and we write an explanation for our mood in our Writer's Notebook.  We have discussed how it is okay to be anywhere on the mood meter, but that our goal may be to reach the yellow or green quadrants by the end of the day.  It is a nice way to check-in with students throughout the day.


A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will continue to take notes on Lesson 5.4 "The Thirteen English Colonies."

ELA
Language Arts and Reading- We will continue to put our research into our Sitting Bull Glogs.

Essential Questions:  

How can challenges affect yourself and those around you (i.e family, friends, etc)?

How do characters, real and fictional, respond to challenges  (both positively & negatively)?

How are challenges conquered in literature and informational text?

Word Work- Spelling:  There will be no Spelling this week.
Vocabulary-  Students will play word games on the iPad and Scrabble.

Science- We finish our web-notes on Lesson 6.3.
Essential Questions:  How do organisms compete and survive in an ecosystem? How do ecosystems change over time? How do people affect ecosystems?

Math-  We will wrap up Lesson 2.8 "Estimating Products," and will work on Lesson 2.9, "Multiplying by One-Digit Numbers."

Important Days:
Monday- Roller Skating Party

Tuesday - Robert Crown Field Trip
Wednesday-Friday- No School- Thanksgiving Vacation!

Have a great weekend!

A Girl with a Cape, by Amy Logan

We loved our author's visit from Amy Logan.  She gave a very energized and engaging talk about how kindness affects others and how there is a super hero inside everyone.  The kids were not only excited to meet and listen to Mrs. Logan, but they were exuberant when they walked into school this morning to find out they had their own "capes" made by our PTO.  Thank you to all on PTO who helped make this author visit extra special.

A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will finish our web-notes on the Puritans, and will read Lesson 5.4 "The Thirteen English Colonies."

ELA
Reading- We will continue to work in our ELA centers during Daily 3.  We will continue to research different topics regarding Sitting Bull, and begin our Glogster.

Essential Questions:  

How can challenges affect yourself and those around you (i.e family, friends, etc)?

How do characters, real and fictional, respond to challenges  (both positively & negatively)?

How are challenges conquered in literature and informational text?

Word Work- Spelling:  Students will be studying Lesson 13, and will take a test on Friday.
Vocabulary-  Students will play word games on the iPad and Scrabble.

Language Arts- Students will turn in their published pieces of writing on Wednesday, and will continue our unit on punctuation.

Science- We will finish our discussion on succession.  The Lesson 6.2 open-note quiz has been pushed back to Wednesday.
Essential Questions:  How do organisms compete and survive in an ecosystem? How do ecosystems change over time? How do people affect ecosystems?

Math-  We will take a Lesson 2.1-2.5 quiz on Tuesday.  Then we will be going over the distributive property, and estimating products.

Important Days:

Friday - End of First Trimester

Have a great weekend!

Author Visit

Amy Logan, author of A Girl with a Cape, is visiting our school on Friday, November 14th.  Ms. Logan wrote this story about a little girl who is ready to make a big difference in the world.  She eventually gets frustrated because she feels there is no big moment in her life that she can make a difference in.  However what she didn't realize is that every time she was nice to someone, it made a difference in that person's life.  This is a story about "paying it forward" and remembering that there is a superhero in everybody.

In class we have decorated our own capes.  Every morning we then pass the capes around the room and write down one positive comment about the cape's owner.  It is a nice way to start off our day!

A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will finish our web-notes on Lesson 5.3 "New European Colonies."  Students are reading about the Pilgrims, Puritans, and the first Thanksgiving.

ELA
Reading- We will continue to work in our ELA centers during Daily 3.  We will compare and contrast how Slow and Jackie Robinson handled the challenges in their lives.  Then we will research different topics regarding Sitting Bull. 

Essential Questions:  

How can challenges affect yourself and those around you (i.e family, friends, etc)?

How do characters, real and fictional, respond to challenges  (both positively & negatively)?

How are challenges conquered in literature and informational text?

Word Work- Spelling:  Students will be studying Lesson 11, and will take a test on Friday.
Vocabulary-  Students will play word games on the iPad and Scrabble.

Language Arts- We will finalize our published pieces of writing, and will begin our unit on punctuation.

Science- We will finish taking notes on Lesson 6.2, and take the open-note quiz on Thursday.
Essential Questions:  How do organisms compete and survive in an ecosystem? How do ecosystems change over time? How do people affect ecosystems?

Math-  We will cover Lessons 2.2-2.5.  We will be learning about exponents and finding patterns in multiplication.

Important Days:

Tuesday- Picture Re-takes
Friday - Author Visit

Have a great weekend!

Halloween

Thank you to everybody who helped make our Halloween party a success!  Thank you so much for bringing in supplies, setting everything up, and organizing the games.  The kids had a great time!

A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will finish our web-notes on Lesson 5.2 "New European Colonies," and will begin to read Lesson 5.3.

ELA
Reading- We will continue to work in our ELA centers.  We will discuss how Slow's character changes as he grows up, and students will be introduced to our research project on Sitting Bull.

Essential Questions:  

How can challenges affect yourself and those around you (i.e family, friends, etc)?

How do characters, real and fictional, respond to challenges  (both positively & negatively)?

How are challenges conquered in literature and informational text?

Word Work- Spelling:  Students will not have Spelling this week.
Vocabulary-  Students will continue to make skits about their vocabulary words on the iPad, and will have a vocabulary quiz on Friday.

Language Arts- We will continue to apply our writing strategies by revising fragments and run-on sentences.  Students are going to be revising their published piece of writing.

Science- We will finish reading Lesson 6.2, and begin to take our web-notes on this lesson.
Essential Questions:  How do organisms compete and survive in an ecosystem? How do ecosystems change over time? How do people affect ecosystems?

Math-  We will begin Chapter 2, and will be focusing on prime factorization, and exponents.

Important Days:

Monday- No School
Tuesday- No School- Teacher Institute- Go Vote!
Friday - Family Bingo Night 6:30-8:00pm

Have a great week!