Updates and announcements
I love second quarter because
our students really start to get comfortable in the classroom, they start
taking academic risks, and the routines are perfected. We also have so many fun
activities and classroom celebrations! We will be working closely with 2A
throughout the quarter with buddy reading and Socratic discussion practice.
Our Read-a-thon is tomorrow!
Please remember that students may dress up if their costume was approved by me
(all proposals so far have been approved). Students should bring in a flashlight,
pillow, and their favorite book to read in our blanket forts.
Friday is a half day due to
teacher training.
Our week in learning
This week, students will
start block for Writing and Grammar. They will be reviewing diagramming and
classifying skills, as well as be introduced to pronouns.
We will start reading Where
the Red Fern Grows this week. They will be working on a comprehension packet
for each chapter that they read for homework.
There will be a weekly
roots quiz on Wednesday.
Poetry recitations will
take place next Wednesday, November 1st. (Narcissa)
This week, students will continue their study of the Animal
Kingdom and will be assigned a take-home quiz on Monday, due in homeroom on
Thursday. They will also learn about the Fungi Kingdom and complete a take-home
quiz over the weekend. Students will fill out portions of their Classification
study guides concurrent with the day’s lesson each night. Study guides will be
collected for points at the end of the Classification unit.
This week in History, students will begin learning about the
Reformation. We will be addressing this topic as a historical event-not
labeling “good” and “bad”. Students will be learning about the objective
corruptions within the Catholic church at this time, then the
Counter-Reformation, and lastly, the Reformation’s effect on science. This
week, we will discuss the Counter-Reformation and the revolution in science
that occurred with Copernicus and Galileo during the Reformation. Study guides
will go home on Monday, October 30th and due Monday, November 6th. The
Reformation test will take place on Tuesday, November 7th. We will also learn
about the Northwest region of the United States. Please note that there will be
a 50 states location test before Thanksgiving Break. The study guides for this
50 states test will go home on Wednesday, giving students 3 weeks to prepare.
This week in Math, students will finish our first fractions unit.
We will review on Monday and take their test on Tuesday. We will jump right
into our next unit on Wednesday, so there will be no math groups on Wednesday.
Our next unit is continuing with fractions, focusing on multiplying and
dividing fractions. Open tutoring is on Mondays, 3:05-3:40.
