Week 2 Announcements

It's hard to believe that the first week of school FLEW by, here are some reminders/announcements and what we will be focusing on as we get ready to "sail" into week two!!

Weekly Announcements: 

• Check your daughter's week 2 edition of "The Weekly Bubble" for announcements on upcoming tests, assignments, 100 BC Goals and activities. We will have a Science Test on "Process Skills" on Friday.
• Remember to have your child wear tennis shoes on *Tuesday* for PE!
• Monday, September 1st is Labor Day-NO SCHOOL!
• Graded papers will be sent home starting this week every *Monday!*
• Our "Super Surfer of the Week" for Week 1 is EMMA MIZE!! She showed kindness and perseverance all week long, and she also posted on the blog about her favorite "wonder!" Way to go, Emma! :)

"Ride the Weekly Wave" (August 25th-29th)

Math-We will be exploring place value positions of digits using base 10 blocks and how place value affects the value of a digit. We will also be looking at how many ways a number can be represented (base 10, expanded form, word form, etc.)

Reading-We will be continuing our “Choose Kind” PBL as we keep reading the novel Wonder and look at different genres related to kindness/bullying. We are discussing various quotes throughout the novel to use our comprehension and critical thinking skills. We are also integrating related vocabulary words and figurative language.  

ELA/Writing-In a “Writer’s Workshop” format, we will be continuing to explore various mentor texts for memoirs to  write our very own memoirs. We are integrating figurative language, “hooks,” and transition words into our writing this week.

Social Studies-We will be reviewing the Land Bridge Theory and beginning to learn about and research where the Native American cultural groups are located and what the differences are between the groups.

Science-We are continuing to practice using our process skills of qualitative/quantitative observation and learning about how to make inferences. We will be practicing the difference between each process skill and making observations, inferences, and predictions about pictures/videos. We will test on these process skills this Friday! 

As promised, to start off the week, here are a few pictures from my wedding day on August 2nd!

Parents/Guardians and Students...our WONDER of the week is http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/are-all-bullies-big/ We will be discussing this wonder in class, but please also watch at home to discuss. 

Post a comment-What are your thoughts and what did you learn??

Sincerely, 

Mrs. Burns