- Our rescheduled trip to the farm is Wednesday October 19th. If you are interested in chaperoning, please email Ms. Bouchard. More info to come next week!
- Next week we start our residency with Circle in the Square!
- Our first day of swim is tomorrow first period (remind kids)
- We started differentiated math groups this week!
- Family Friday is tomorrow! Come join us from 8:50-9:35 to learn how to use a narrative toolkit to help students lift the level of their writing.
- There is no school Monday and Tuesday in observance of Rosh Hashanah.
CURRICULUM:
Reading: This week we are moving into bend three of our current reading unit, which focuses on ways to challenge more complicated texts. We will study context clues and figurative language to determine meaning.
Writing: After brainstorming and focusing on a wide variety of pieces, we committed to one narrative piece to take through the writing process. After many oral rehearsals we are looking at ways to pull our audience into our stories and lift the level of our preliminary drafts.
Math: This week Ms. Mackenzie and I launched differentiated math. We studied student preassessment data and grouped students by areas of needs. This week all groups explored rounding. Next week our topic of focus is adding and subtracting with regrouping.
Social Studies: This week we focused on legends, keys, compasses, and other tools to read maps. Students engaged in a cross curricular activity of planning a trip on route 66 and using rounding to calculate the total distance with a partner.
