Reading/Writing - We are working on two things this month in our reader's workshop. One of them is non-fiction reading, the other is working on reading fluency through reader's theater practice. Students are reading Tru-Flix (digital) books about a continent. Each session they are assigned a continent and a couple of questions. Our initial focus within these books (other than the reading work) is physical geographical features. Students are practicing their non-fiction reading strategies, responding to reading, and we're also tying this into our writing for the month.
We're practicing constructed response writing using the LEAF paragraph. It is a fantastic structure for helping students write a focused and complete paragraph in response to a question about their reading. We work in the NF books twice a week and practice our reader's theater twice a week. You may see some of this work come home if it is not completed during the provided time in class.
We're practicing constructed response writing using the LEAF paragraph. It is a fantastic structure for helping students write a focused and complete paragraph in response to a question about their reading. We work in the NF books twice a week and practice our reader's theater twice a week. You may see some of this work come home if it is not completed during the provided time in class.
Math - We started back in the new year with a new unit. Unit 3 focuses on Geometry and Measurement. Students have been exploring symmetry, congruence, discovering how to find area, and working on using precise language and what they know about the properties of shapes to make generalizations about area and congruence.
In number corner, students are making observations and predictions about 3-D shapes using multiple views, and tracking and averaging the weather here in VT and our chosen "sister city" Johannesburg, South Africa. Pretty interesting to record an almost 100 degree weather difference in one day!
World Geography - We will continue our focus on World Geography through the month of January. Currently, we are studying physical features on earth with a global perspective. We will then connect this to how and where people live in the world.
January's share theme will ask students to choose a Famous Site somewhere in the world to do mini-research on and then give a digital presentation. We will give students a bit of time to work on this in class - for resources, but the majority of the work will be homework. Please have your child let us know if they need to use school computers to complete this assignment because they do not have access to one at home.
Spring Conferences - Don't forget to sign up for a conference on the googledoc I shared this week.
Friday Snack Shack - Thanks to all of you who have participated in this. The kids have loved sharing foods with one another and their time together reading about current events!
No comments:
Post a Comment