February 13-17
This week Mrs. Nett will be teaching full time!
This Week's Academics
MUR -We have a week of literature circles under our belts now and things are going great. Students are grouped according to their STEP levels. Mrs. Nett, our student teacher, and I will each be leading two groups of students. I will be reading James and the Giant Peach with my groups, and Mrs. Nett will be reading Because of Winn-Dixie with her groups. We will be leaving the books at school since we have borrowed them from several different resources. If you would like to check out the book from your library to have at home, that would be great!
MUR -We have a week of literature circles under our belts now and things are going great. Students are grouped according to their STEP levels. Mrs. Nett, our student teacher, and I will each be leading two groups of students. I will be reading James and the Giant Peach with my groups, and Mrs. Nett will be reading Because of Winn-Dixie with her groups. We will be leaving the books at school since we have borrowed them from several different resources. If you would like to check out the book from your library to have at home, that would be great!
History - We will be starting our American Revolution unit this week. This unit is rather long, so it will take us several weeks to get through. We will have two smaller quizzes instead of one larger test. I will let you know as we get closer to the quizzes when those dates will be.
With this unit, we will be doing an at home project. More details to come soon.
Writing - Last week we started our poetry unit. Students are learning about all kinds on poems, including bio-poems, haiku, limericks, free verse, shape poems, and many more. Students will be responsible for creating a final poetry book of their final drafts by the end of the unit.
Read Aloud - We are just getting into the beginning of Sherlock Holmes this week.
MUM - We have started our unit on geometry. Last week we worked on area and perimeter of rectangles and squares and this week we will continue to work on those skills. We will also work on finding the area and perimeter of composite figures that are made up of two or more rectangles or squares.
We also have our third interim of the year coming up this Thursday. We will review all the concepts and skills that we have learned over the first part of the year in order to get ready for this test.
