Just a reminder that we offer an optional study hall every week on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 3:00 – 4:00. Your child may stay to have a quiet place to work and/or to receive help.
Reading
We are excited to welcome Jim Aylesworth and Sally Walker, visiting authors on Thursday and Friday! This week in reading we will continue to study the elements of fiction. We will be learning about these skills through our mini lessons. The mini lessons are meant to be brief class discussions in which the teacher models a strategy and then assists the students in completing it. The students also share their ideas with their partner and/or with the class. Although iMovie packets have been collected and returned to students, we are still working on creating the trailers using iMovie on our fiction and nonfiction books. Reading Logs are due on Fridays.
This week the skills and strategies we are working on include:
Our mentor texts this week include:
Writing
This week we are continuing working on our opinion writing. We are currently working on our second essay, based on a character from a book of our choice. We are including an introduction and conclusion that supports our claim. We will also be taking our pre-assessment for the next unit, which is on informational writing. We will have a preparation day for our opinion writing post assessment on Friday, and then the formal writing of the essay will take place on Monday.
Math
This week we are continuing on in Unit 2, Expressions and Equations. We will be learning how to write and expand multiplication expressions. The students will receive new station work which will be due next Friday, November 13th.
Important Dates
Reading
We are excited to welcome Jim Aylesworth and Sally Walker, visiting authors on Thursday and Friday! This week in reading we will continue to study the elements of fiction. We will be learning about these skills through our mini lessons. The mini lessons are meant to be brief class discussions in which the teacher models a strategy and then assists the students in completing it. The students also share their ideas with their partner and/or with the class. Although iMovie packets have been collected and returned to students, we are still working on creating the trailers using iMovie on our fiction and nonfiction books. Reading Logs are due on Fridays.
This week the skills and strategies we are working on include:
- Identifying challenge while reading
- Determining point of view
- Applying elements of a play while reading
- Comparing texts
- Asking critical questions
Our mentor texts this week include:
- I Can Hear the Sun by Patricia Polacco
- The Circuit by Francisco Jiménez
- The Lily Cupboard by Shulamith Levey Oppenheim
- “Claudette’s Story” by Ed Combs
Writing
This week we are continuing working on our opinion writing. We are currently working on our second essay, based on a character from a book of our choice. We are including an introduction and conclusion that supports our claim. We will also be taking our pre-assessment for the next unit, which is on informational writing. We will have a preparation day for our opinion writing post assessment on Friday, and then the formal writing of the essay will take place on Monday.
Math
This week we are continuing on in Unit 2, Expressions and Equations. We will be learning how to write and expand multiplication expressions. The students will receive new station work which will be due next Friday, November 13th.
Important Dates
- Tuesday, November 3rd:
- STAR Reading Assessment
- Wednesday, November 4th:
- STAR Math Assessment
- 6:30 pm Bilingual Parents Meeting at JJHS
- Thursday, November 5th:
- Picture Retakes
- 6:30-8:00 pm Dr. Heggerty Reading Night
- Tuesday, November 10th:
- Lyric Opera Fieldtrip at North Central College (Bring $7 for Lunch if needed & Students are to dress nicely!)
- Wednesday, November 11th:
- No School, Veterans Day
- Thursday, November 12th:
- 7:00 pm- PTO Meeting