It was a pleasure to meet with all of you and talk about your wonderful students during conferences. Thank you for coming in! Continue to look at for posts on seesaw as students share more of the work they are proud of. This week at Hoover:
This week’s focus is the double vowel sound -ie and -ei. The first vowel has a long sound and the second is silent. Also “i” before “e” except after “c” is included:
Science This week we will wrap up our structures and functions of life unit with a group project in which students will use the scientific method to ask and test one question about structures and functions of life. Students will write a report of their question, procedure, and results as a group. Reading In reading this week we continue our focus on expository nonfiction. We are using the strategy of asking questions before reading in order to help us pay closer attention to what we read and learn from the text. Students seem to really enjoy our mentor text for this unit which focuses on animal sense. Writing This week we continue to focus on looking at examples of and drafting personal narratives. As students develop drafts that they think they would like to take through the writing process they may post partial drafts to seesaw for your feedback.
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Congratulations to all of you on awesome fundraising for Hoover. Students had a great time celebrating their fundraising on Friday, and we are so excited about all the fun and academic things this effort allows us to do here at Hoover.
This week is full of fun and important events:
It seems in preparation for a Halloween at school, for the first time in a long time, that our classroom is full of crawling critters: namely, crayfish and Bess Beetles. I was sort of a crawling critter last week, as I was out with a bad cold for two days. If there is anything I missed in that time, which I have forgotten to respond to, please let me know. (Reminder that Halloween is a "sports spirit day".)
Important, school wide reminders:
Spelling Words this week: This week’s list is vocabulary from our recent reading unit:
Reading In reading this week we continue with our study of expository text but we are beginning a new unit which focuses on questioning. In this unit students practice asking and answering questions about nonfiction texts. Writing: Personal Narrative We have wrapped up our first writing unit which was all about students becoming part of a writing community, writing freely in a way that interests them and using the writing process to publish a piece of writing. We will now begin a writing unit in which we focus on the personal narrative genre. Particularly students will publish personal narratives about their name. We will read a number of examples of authors writing creatively about their names and the names of characters and use these examples to craft our own personal name narratives. If you haven't talked to your student in the past about the story or history of their name this would be a great time to start!. Science This week we continue our study of structures and functions with the structure and functions of Bess Beetle anatomy. By the end of the week we will compare this crayfish anatomy as we wrap up our structures and functions unit. Welcome to the second week of October! Students have taken a lot of great pics of our crayfish fun last week. Check them out on their iPads if they brought them home.
My apologies, if I have missed responding to you. I was out on Friday and I am out sick today, Monday. It’s just a bad cold and I hope to be better and back tomorrow, Tuesday.
In this final week of examining expository text features students will read a text on 19th century migration to America. Students will continue to analyze and use text features to better understand the text. Students will also do some writing about reading to demonstrate what they have learned about expository texts. Writing This week students will edit and publish one or more pieces of writing which they worked on drafting and revising last week. This first writing unit, which focuses on allowing students to write freely and using the writing process will then conclude. We will next move to more genre specific writing. Science This week in science we continue learning about crayfish anatomy. We will also explore how their anatomy influences their preferred habitat and behaviors. Spelling Words this week:
Finally, it feels like fall and that is just the perfect weather for school in my opinion. Over the last month students have done a great job of getting to know the classroom, the school and each other. Now that they're feeling much more comfortable we can begin our academic pursuits in earnest.
Important reminders for this week:
This week in reading we continue to read expository texts, discuss our understanding of the text and use text features to better understand what we are reading. This week we will focus more on magazine and newspaper articles. Writing At the end of last week students moved from pre-writing to drafting their first published piece of writing. We are using google docs to type our drafts. This week we will continue to discuss and participate in the writing process moving our first pieces from drafting, to revising, to editing, to published. Number Corner October's number corner focuses on a review of equivalent fractions and money. We will also play a game to review multi-digit addition and subtraction to the millions. Science Last week our crayfish arrived, and much to our great sadness only 3 managed to live through their first night. Fortunately, the company is sending us more this week and we will begin our investigation of crayfish structures. Book Study Our book study focus continues to be a whole class reading of Earthquake Terror by Peg Kehert. This week we focus on how readers keep track of and use important events in the story in order to better understand and summarize the plot. Spelling Words this week: Double Vowel Sounds: -oa and -oe
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