Reading - We are still working on main idea and details and character traits. Our current focus is to provide evidence from the text to support answers given. This is hard sometimes!
Writing - Lessons this week will focus on paragraph writing (ties in nicely with main idea and details) but students will all be working toward individual goals in their writing practice. We are writing in Gratitude Journals a few times each week as well.
Spelling - Don't forget to ask your student about their current spelling words. They came home on a page divided into squares. Most students will get new words this week as well. I cannot indicate specific skills here as students work on different spelling words based on what they have already mastered. If you would like more information on our spelling, see the blog post from 9/22.
Math - We are still working on multiplication. The students are doing well with it! We will learn about multiplying by 7 this week. We will talk about using the distributive property as a strategy (7x8 = 8x5 + 8x2). We used this for multiplying 6 as well. Students have learned about the distributive, associative and commutative properties of multiplication. We will continue to review these daily. As with most strategies in math, students do not have to use any particular strategy but are encouraged to use the one they are most comfortable with. However, I do encourage them to think about the most efficient way to solve a problem (for example if 5 is a factor then they should count by 5's).
Science: We just finished Government in Social Studies. We will continue to study U.S. symbols but will do so through reading and writing as a research and writing project over the next couple of weeks. This week we will begin our study of force and motion in Science.
Writing - Lessons this week will focus on paragraph writing (ties in nicely with main idea and details) but students will all be working toward individual goals in their writing practice. We are writing in Gratitude Journals a few times each week as well.
Spelling - Don't forget to ask your student about their current spelling words. They came home on a page divided into squares. Most students will get new words this week as well. I cannot indicate specific skills here as students work on different spelling words based on what they have already mastered. If you would like more information on our spelling, see the blog post from 9/22.
Math - We are still working on multiplication. The students are doing well with it! We will learn about multiplying by 7 this week. We will talk about using the distributive property as a strategy (7x8 = 8x5 + 8x2). We used this for multiplying 6 as well. Students have learned about the distributive, associative and commutative properties of multiplication. We will continue to review these daily. As with most strategies in math, students do not have to use any particular strategy but are encouraged to use the one they are most comfortable with. However, I do encourage them to think about the most efficient way to solve a problem (for example if 5 is a factor then they should count by 5's).
Science: We just finished Government in Social Studies. We will continue to study U.S. symbols but will do so through reading and writing as a research and writing project over the next couple of weeks. This week we will begin our study of force and motion in Science.