Thank you for coming to conferences! It is wonderful to see the team that each of student has on their side. Please, continue to let me know if you have questions or concerns at any time. Discovery Days Students had a great time discovering reptiles, microbiology, chemistry, plants, and much more. Thank you to our chaperones for helping out and to OSU for hosting this awesome science event. Dead Word Project Students are finishing up their Dead Word Eulogies at home this week. Some students have shared their beautifully typed writing and creative art with me already. We are looking forward to our solemn ceremony on Monday the 7th, when we will truly say good-bye to these overused words. Please, check in with your student about where they are on this project. Reading For the next two weeks in reading we will be working on identifying character traits and practicing the language we use to communicate about characters. We will be using our class read aloud, Wonder, which has lots of rich characters as well as other story books to practice identifying and describing traits. Book Commercial Project Students will also learn about our new reading project that will take us right up to the winter break. They will be choosing a chapter book (it must be a narrative), that they have not read before to create a book commercial for. Students commercial will include: characters, setting, point of view from which the story is told, the genre, the author's message or purpose and their own personal review and star rating. Here is a link to an example I made. Students will be able to choose their medium for creation: either imovie or educreations. I anticipate lots of creativity! Writing We are beginning a new writing unit that focuses on fiction writing. One thing I like about our writing curriculum is that this doesn't always mean your conventional idea of fiction. The books we read this past week: Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold and Night of the Gargoyles by Eve Bunting, were both slightly unconventional and inspired students to do very creative imaginative writing and writing about inanimate objects that come to life. This week we will continue our fiction study with a focus on character development. Ask your student about what they are writing about in their notebook. Science We are beginning a new science unit called "how the earth changes". We will be learning about erosion and deposition as well as the impacts of rain, water, wind and ice on shaping our earth; but our big focus will be on earthquakes. Eventually we will engage in a design competition to retrofit a building and make it more earthquake safe. Stay tuned for more information about this as well as ways you could help out. Social Studies This week students are finishing their candidate profiles. Students have been careful to be factual, accurate, professional and to cite their sources. These will be sent home sometime next week so look out for them. Before that though students will exchange profiles and make up their mind about who they will vote for, before our own mini class election. After this we will begin studying our 50 states, including location, capitals and interesting facts. Remember Next Week:
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