Welcome
back! This week we began our second novel The
Thing About Georgie. We are exploring new themes and vocabulary and
discussing ways we can treat others who are different than we are with respect
and kindness. We have done a lot of fun activities in class to help us have
perspective on our main character such as comparing our “normal” heights to
Georgie’s and even trying something as simple as reaching our own ears! In our
journals we are writing about accepting others differences and about the
characters we are meeting in our first few chapters. In Math we continued practicing
double digit addition with regrouping and introduced double digit subtraction
with regrouping. We are also learning our 5 x tables this week. In Social
Studies we explored our Scholastic News magazine and learned about the rover
exploring Mars. We watched an amazing video on Discovery Streaming about this
really cool planet! Then, we designed our own robots and gave them our own
creative names inspired by what we learned. We are continuing to work in our
handwriting books and using our spelling words in our reading and writing
activities
A look ahead...
Next
week, we will continue using our novel by exploring themes about friendship and
bullying and focusing on the characters as they develop. In Language Arts we
will be introducing essay writing and preparing for our first 3 paragraph
essay. Our spelling words will be words from our reading in addition to leveled
words from our series and math terms. We will continue to use our new cursive
skills and add entries in our journals with topics about our reading and
feelings about our story. In Math we will be reviewing chapter 2 and 3 and
practicing these skills. We will be taking our test on Tuesday. We will also be
studying our 9 times tables. In Social Studies we will
begin Chapter 3 by exploring natural resources and how we can keep our environment
healthy. Thank you all for being so diligent in signing your children’s reading
log. I understand that that it is a daily event and can be seen as a burden,
however helping our children understand the importance of reading on a daily
basis is something that will stay with them for a life time.
Here we are in Art class making beautiful fall leaves
Our new playground is AMAZING! We love recess!
In Social Studies we created our very own roving robots!
Practicing math facts on the Smartboard is so fun!
Here are some of the activities we did for our novel. We measured ourselves, tried to reach our ears, and worked hard in our reading response notebooks making predictions and per-reading observations.
Here are our reading bulletin boards for our read-a-thon and our first novel project
