Odds and Ends...
- School pictures will be on October 14th. This will be an out of uniform day.
- No school on October 20-21 for MEA
- Conferences will be the evenings of the 13th, 18th, and 19th of October.
- The next day that students can wear their class t-shirts is October 28th!
This Week's Academics
MUR - This week we will be reading the story "Two Brothers" by Tolstoy. We will really be working on retelling the story this week. Along with the story we will work out of our Wordly Wise books which focus on vocabulary and also out of our Analytical Grammar books where we have already started working with nouns, adjectives, and articles.
Spelling homework will be sent home on Monday and is due Friday. This will occur every week!
MUM - This week we will continue to work through multi-digit multiplication and start to work on long division. Long division is a HARD concept for students to learn and will take some time for students to master this skill. Most students have not mastered their facts higher than 5s. Memorizing their facts 6-9 will help them with the skills we will be working on the rest of the school year. Each student made flashcards for 6-9 in class last week that they should have brought home to work with. If you have not seen these flashcards, let me know!
Basic facts homework will be sent home on Monday and is due Friday.
History - This week we are starting our Europe in the Middle Ages unit in history. This unit is 21 chapters long, and will take us several weeks to get through. We will take a quiz after the first 10 chapters. This puts the tentative quiz date the Tuesday after MEA break which is Oct. 25th. There will also be an at home project that students will be responsible for completing. This project will be introduced next week.
Writing - This week we will learn about the 6+1writing trait VOICE. We will be writing a tribute poem that will demonstrate good voice by using specific words that create visual pictures for the reader and striking words and phrases that made the reader want to read more. We will continue to work in our cursive handwriting books and also review the basics of writing good sentences and paragraphs.
When we finish out tribute poems, then we will move into informative writing about animals. Students will learn an effective way of taking notes, and will use those notes as they draft their papers. Some research may have to be done at home.
Read Aloud - We are reading the Core Knowledge Novel Robin Hood this week. It ties in nicely to our history unit about Europe in the Middle Ages and students will see a lot of similarities between the two.
