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Narrative Writing:  Drafting

Playground Cleanup

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ELA:  

Writer's Workshop:  We will begin revising our narratives.  Students will work on writing different leads to their stories and using transition words in their writing.

Reading Skills: Students will continue studying their first unit in Reading: "What makes us who we are?" We will finish discussing the story, The Year of the Rat.  We will continue to practice asking questions as we read, and will continue to discuss author's purpose.

Essential Question:  How do your experiences help shape your identity?

Essential Vocab: identity, experience, pursuit, wisdom

Word Work: Students will continue to work with our new vocabulary words, by defining the word, drawing a picture of the word, finding synonyms and antonyms, and writing them in sentences.  New vocabulary words include:  ancient, heritage, resolutions, doubts, relying, clumsy, and awkward.

Science: We will be using Mystery Science videos and STEM activities to help students become more inquisitive and curious about the world around them.  We will begin to discuss the science behind creating sports' equipment.

Social Studies:  Students will continue to study the Midwest.  We will continue to look at the physical features and waterways of the Midwest.  We will also continue to discuss Hispanic Heritage month and learn about different Latin American countries.

Math: Students will be taking their Unit 1 assessment on Thursday of this week.  We will be reviewing the different strategies to model multiplication, factors, prime/composite numbers and multiples.  Students will receive a new copy of the pre-assessment which will serve as their study guide for the test.

Important Days:

Wednesday- Early Dismissal

A Peek at this Week

Tori Franklin:  Habits of a Champion

Lakeview Homecoming Parade:

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ELA:  

Writer's Workshop:  We will continue to build our writing stamina in our Writer's notebooks.  We will pick a personal narrative that we will publish after going through the writing process.

Reading Skills: Students will continue studying their first unit in Reading: "What makes us who we are?" We will read the story, Yes! We are Latinos!.  We will continue to practice asking questions as we read, and will continue to discuss author's purpose.

Essential Question:  How do your experiences help shape your identity?

Essential Vocab: identity, experience, pursuit, wisdom

Word Work: Students will continue to work with our new vocabulary words, by defining the word, drawing a picture of the word, finding synonyms and antonyms, and writing them in sentences.  New vocabulary words include:  ancient, heritage, resolutions, doubts, relying, clumsy, and awkward.

Science: We will be using Mystery Science videos and STEM activities to help students become more inquisitive and curious about the world around them.  

Social Studies:  Students will continue to study the Midwest.  We are looking at the physical features and waterways of the Midwest.

Math: Students are working on listing factors and multiples of a number, and finding prime or composite numbers. They will also be using a ratio table, number line, array, or area model to solve multiplication problems.  Students will take a quiz over this on Wednesday or Thursday of this week.

A Peek at this Week

Star of the Week Scavenger Hunt 

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ELA:  

Writer's Workshop:  We will continue to build our writing stamina in our Writer's notebooks.  We will also begin to discuss narrative writing.

Reading Skills: Students will begin their first unit in Reading: "What makes us who we are?" We read our first story, Flora & Ulysses.  We will continue to practice asking questions as we read, and will discuss author's purpose.

Essential Question:  How do your experiences help shape your identity?

Essential Vocab: identity, experience, pursuit, wisdom

Word Work: Students will continue to work with our new vocabulary words, by defining the word, drawing a picture of the word, finding synonyms and antonyms, and writing them in sentences.  New vocabulary words include:  cynic, defiance, profound, inadvertently, consumed, descended, obliged, mundane, considered, and disdain.

Science: We will be using Mystery Science videos and STEM activities to help students become more inquisitive and curious about the world around them.  We will be planning for our new September challenge:  creating a boat.  

Social Studies:  Students will continue to build our classroom community, and we will begin our unit on the studying the Midwest.  We will be looking at maps of the United States, and labeling the states in the Midwest.

Math: Students will continue to work on using different multiplication strategies.  Students will take a Unit 1, Module 1 quiz on Tuesday, reviewing these different strategies.  

Important Days:

Thursday- 6:00-7:30 Curriculum Night

A Peek at this Week

Scientific Observations 

Puzzle Complete!

Look at this Week:

ELA:  

Writer's Workshop:  We will continue to build our writing stamina in our Writer's notebooks.  

Reading Skills: Students will begin their first unit in Reading: "What makes us who we are?" We will continue to work on finding the central idea and supporting details in a text.

Essential Question:  How do your experiences help shape your identity?

Essential Vocab: identity, experience, pursuit, wisdom

Word Work: Students will be working with our new vocabulary words, by defining the word, drawing a picture of the word, finding synonyms and antonyms, and writing them in sentences.  New vocabulary words include:  cynic, defiance, profound, inadvertently, consumed, descended, obliged, mundane, considered, and disdain.

Math: Students will continue to model multiplication and division in order to solve story problems.  They will also be introduced to composite numbers, prime numbers, and factors.

Science: We will be using Mystery Science videos and STEM activities to help students become more inquisitive and curious about the world around them.  

Social Studies:  Students will continue to build our classroom community, and we will begin our unit on the studying the Midwest.  We will be looking at maps of the United States, and labeling the states in the Midwest.

Important Days:

Monday- No School- Labor Day

Tuesday- Picture Day

Welcome Back!

First Full Week of School

It has been a wonderful first week of school!  We have been working on team building and building classroom norms.  

Team Building

Panther Pause Time:

S.T.E.M. Activity:

 Look at this Week:

ELA:  

Writer's Workshop:  We will continue to build our writing stamina in our Writing notebooks.  We have worked our way up to 7 solid minutes of writing.

Reading Skills: Students will begin their first unit in Reading: "What makes us who we are?"

Essential Question:  How do your experiences help shape your identity?

Word Work: Students will be working with our new vocabulary words, by defining the word, drawing a picture of the word, finding synonyms and antonyms, and writing them in sentences.

Essential Vocab: identity, experience, pursuit, wisdom

Math: Students are starting Unit 1: Models for Multiplication and Division.  Next week we will begin to look at the different ways to model multiplication:  open number line, ratio table, tile array, and area model.

Science: We will be using Mystery Science videos and STEM activities to help students become more inquisitive and curious about the world around them.  We will begin next week discussing what is a scientist.

Social Studies:  Students will continue to build our classroom community, and we will begin our unit on the studying the Midwest.

Important Days:

Tuesday- Reading MAP testing 10:15-11:15 AM

Wednesday- Early Dismissal (11:25 AM pick-up)

Thursday- Math MAP testing 1:15-2:30 PM