Happy Monday 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.
There has been a lot going on in our classroom this past month 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:
Literacy
We will start to wrap up our first unit of Amplify CKLA next week - Personal Narratives. We’ve been working on skills such as close reading in order to infer, determining author’s tone, as well as continuing to practice showing, not telling, within our writing. Students worked this week on a surprise narrative, where they detailed a time they were surprised by something. They practiced using dialogue and sensory descriptions in their narratives. After next week, we'll move on to Unit 2: Early American Civilizations- the Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas.
Math
Our students are wrapping up Unit 1, which focuses on evaluating numerical expressions with parentheses, using the correct order of operations. We are also a month into our Number Corner lessons, which have been focused around clock and money fractions and finding the volume of rectangular prisms. Next week we will begin Unit 2, which will focus on addition and subtraction of fractions. 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.
Social Studies
We are really enjoying our first Social Studies unit! Our discussions have focused on the perceptions of Indigenous American Cultures and learning how to formulate questions to help guide our students' learning on how to better honor the cultural heritage of this land. This week, we looked at what really happened at the First Thanksgiving Dinner!
Upcoming Events
*Thursday, October 8th- Early Release- Parent Educator Conferences
*Friday, October 9th- No School- Parent Educator Conferences
*Monday, October 12th- No School- District Holiday
Friendly Reminders
*Please remind your student to charge his/her iPad and Apple Pencil every night.
*Please remember to send your student with a healthy snack.
*Please continue to have your student practice multiplication facts up to 12.
*Band and orchestra students should remember to be prepared with their instruments and music books on the days of lessons.
Enzie Pangilinan
