Wow, a full week of school! This feels like a rare thing in the winter months. I hope everyone has a relaxing weekend, stays healthy and enjoys the Super Bowl. E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles!! (I grew up 20 minutes from Philly!)
Reminders and Updates
This week we continue our fiction unit with a focus on conflict, theme and answering text based questions. We will be reading Bat Boy & His Violin by Gavin Curtis. Also: Read for Read-A-Thon pledges should be collected this week. Book Study We began Earthquake Terror at the beginning of the school year. The class elected to wait till I got back to finish the book. We will spend the next couple weeks in book teams finishing the book and completing a related project. We will use this book study to review fiction story elements: setting, characters/ traits, plot, conflict, theme, and genre. Vocabulary and figurative language from the story will be included in our study. Students will also practice strategies for summarizing narrative text. This week we will read chapters 11 and 12. Writing This week we continue the writing our Fiction Writing Unit. We will focus on some "show not tell" strategies, which is important for creating vivid narrative writing. We will also read Ahmed's Secret, a great example of vivid narrative fiction! Science We continue "How the Earth Changes Unit" which focuses on erosion, deposition and earthquakes. Later this transitions into a related unit on Civil Engineering. If anyone has a background related to these topics, I have enjoyed having guest speakers in the past and would love to have you! This week we will learn about tectonic plates and faults. Number Corner February's number corner focuses on angles; including identifying types and measuring angles using a protractor. Spelling This week’s focus is a variety of “r” sounds at the end of words. The sounds are: “er”, “eur”, “or”, “eer”, and “ure”
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