Hope you all had a great week!
There is no school 11/25 - 11/27.
This week was FULL of presentations. The students presented their research on extreme weather for reading, their research on energy for science, and they gave powerful persuasive speeches in writing. Here are some pictures!
We will upload the presentations to Seesaw this week!
One of the closing circle questions at the end of the day this week was "Who in your life makes you the happiest?" This by far was my favorite question I've as the students this year. It was so sweet to hear them respond with answers about their dog, moms, dads, siblings, and grandparents.
Thanksgiving is this week! Check out this article out featuring NDLC's very own art teacher, Ms. Kuplack!
https://fox11online.com/good-day-wi/get-creative-with-a-thanksgiving-day-craft-idea
November 25: No School
November 26: Happy Thanksgiving! No School
November 27: No School
Curriculum Update:
Reading: We are starting our new reading unit this week! Back to fiction books! Students wont be filling out a book log the same way they used to. It will now look like this:
Students spent last week Friday personalizing their work plan folder. They will fill in their plan for the day listing a page goal, a partner talk goal, and a jot goal. They are challenged to practice the same "talk" with someone at home when they do their homework. They should also practice the same "jot goal" that they did in class at home. Please remind your child to talk AND WRITE about their reading each night for homework. During out nonfiction unit, students learned about notetaking using the following strategies: Chronological, boxes and bullets, problem/solution, cause/effect, and compare/contrast. Students will be learning that they can use those same strategies and organizers to take notes about characters in fiction stories.
Writing: We will begin our new writing unit this week as well! This unit focuses on literary essays and students will be working on writing arguments about texts. They will begin by writing essays that defend character-based ideas and will practice organization and writing clear claims.
Math: We've been working through our division unit! There are four different strategies that were taught to the students. It was their job to try each and then decide which works best for them. By now, many students have found 'their' strategy. Division games came home last week and will come home this week for homework. Practice helps, so if your child is struggling with division, encourage them to be playing those games. This week we started 'seminars' (which are the same as small groups, it just sounds more exciting and 'professional') 🙂 I will continue to pull each child into a seminar to practice division!
Please refrain from teaching your child the standard algorithm. Take a look at the progression of how division is learned here.
Word Study: We will begin unit 5 this week. On Monday, practice packets will be coming home. These are not required, but highly encouraged. Students who do these packets tend to do very well on the unit tests that end the unit. Unit 5 focuses on working with words that have a vowel sound that doesn't say its name. This is called a schwa. If you'd like to learn more about this check out this blog.
Content: We are learning the functions and processes of humans and plants. Last week we spent some time learning and discussing the human eye. The students seem to be really interested in this unit! I am excited to continue.
I hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving! Stay safe!
Carly Burris
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