Sunday, September 7th, 2025

Happy Friday Families!

Welcome to the first installment of our bi-monthly blog post!  The purpose of our classroom blog is to keep you informed and up-to-date about the learning that is taking place in the classroom, as well as making sure you are aware of important upcoming dates and and events.

We've been extremely busy thus far and we are looking forward to what the school year still has in store for us.  Here are the concepts we are currently/planning to work on:


Reading

Over the last couple of weeks, our students read various texts in order to determine the narrator's point of view and perspective.  Much of our instruction is revolving around Road to Freedom, a story about a young girl and mother who escaped slavery in the South. Through these texts, our students are able to have an understanding of how a narrator’s perspective influences the way events are described.  In the coming weeks, we're looking forward to beginning our new, longer, shared text, The Night of the Spadefoot Toad, 

Writing
Our students are working their way through their first narrative piece. They're demonstrating great success utilizing their graphic organizers to plan and develop their stories through the use of a detailed sequence of events and effective character development. Students have been encouraged to add pictures to their planning to help them visualize "scenes" as they put their narrative papers together. 

Math
Our students are currently working their way through Unit 1, which focuses on evaluating numerical expressions with parentheses, using the correct order of operations. We also started our Number Corner lessons, which are focused around clock and money fractions and finding the volume of rectangular prisms.  The introduction of clock and money fractions in Number Corner will help to provide a springboard for teaching our students to find common denominators before adding or subtracting fractions.

Science
We wrapped up our discussions about ecosystems. Over the last couple of weeks, we learned about consumers and the flow of energy through an ecosystem. We learned that consumers must eat animals in order to obtain their energy and to survive. Through various discussions, activities, and investigations, we also learned that food webs can be severely impacted by naturally occurring events, such as Red Tide.

Upcoming Events
*Tuesday, September 23rd - NO SCHOOL (District Holiday)
*Thursday, October 2nd - NO SCHOOL (District Holiday)
*Friday, October 3rd - NO SCHOOL (District Holiday)

Friendly Reminders
**Please have your child charge his or her iPad every evening. Much of what we do throughout the day revolves around our iPads.
**Please remember to send your child with a healthy fruit or vegetable snack each day. Nothing feeds the brain like a healthy snack!
**Please continue to have your child practice their multiplication facts up to 12.

Thank you for your partnership this school year and have a wonderful weekend!

Enzie Pangilinan