Week of January 12th

We have been working on a class goal of putting first things first. A lot of times we get caught up in things that aren't necessarily the first thing that has to be done. As we work as a class to discuss priorities and what we should focus our energy on first it will help us work more efficiently. Have a conversation with your learner about what your family feels like are the most important priorities. If you would like to send a note in or an email I would love to share your thoughts with the class--it would really help our class discussion!

This weeks happenings

Math: 

Chapter 6 Multiplication and division patterns

We will take our Chapter 6 end of unit assessment on Thursday.
Next week will begin Chapter 7, Multiplication and Division.

Math Vocabulary Chapter 7:

decompose: to separate into parts

known fact: a fact that you know by memory

Identity Property of Multiplication: when any number is multiplied by 1, the product is that number

Zero Property of Multiplication: when any number is multiplied by zero, the product is zero

READING AND WRITING

Reading:

We will be reading both fiction and fiction and review the main idea and key details. Then, we will tackle some more difficult texts and practice inferring (using clues from the text help us know what's going on). Before break we practiced figuring out what words meant by using inferring...now we will go bigger to infer what the main idea of a passage and to infer characters feelings/ motives in a text.

Writing:

We will begin working on writing to a prompt and begin our research for our non-fiction pieces. We will focus on vivid verbs that we can use to improve our writing. We are also continuing to learn cursive.

Spelling: This week and next week will focus on Long I spelling patterns. I have added our class link for spelling city to the "Spelling activities at home" page. I am including a link here also.

 

SOCIAL STUDIES AND SCIENCE

Social Studies:

We will continue our study of Colonial Times this week. We will be filling in the test review next week, so look for it to come home.

Science:

We are continuing our study of Earth Materials.