Welcome to a new week of school. This week will be a big one, both in terms of learning and the general busy-ness outside the normal schedule. But more on that in a minute...
We will be starting a new writing program this week. It's a pretty neat program, and I spent a considerable portion of the past week reading through the materials. We will see how it goes. From what I've seen so far, and also from the strength of our group as a whole, I expect great things.
Also, we will continue in our Reach for Reading books (a.k.a. our Crab Books), and I'm excited about a few things we will be trying in our Daily 5 time for Language Arts this week. We will continue to develop richer vocabularies, to read more in-depth and more carefully, and search for information in what we are reading. Look for new assignments to be made in the novels the kids are reading throughout the week.
For Math, we will have a quiz on Wednesday regarding the follow-up "chapter" after the previous test. On Thursday, we won't have Math because of the program, and then on Friday, we will do something special for Math and then start in with chapter four next Monday.
For Science, we will have a quiz at some point this week, and at the end of the week I want to show an episode of Nova about the lunar landings of the 1970's. It's a fascinating one that I've shown every year that I've taught.
We all know that the fifth grade program is Thursday night at 7pm. The kids have been working hard; I'm looking forward to seeing it.
Here's this week's spelling list:
We will be starting a new writing program this week. It's a pretty neat program, and I spent a considerable portion of the past week reading through the materials. We will see how it goes. From what I've seen so far, and also from the strength of our group as a whole, I expect great things.
Also, we will continue in our Reach for Reading books (a.k.a. our Crab Books), and I'm excited about a few things we will be trying in our Daily 5 time for Language Arts this week. We will continue to develop richer vocabularies, to read more in-depth and more carefully, and search for information in what we are reading. Look for new assignments to be made in the novels the kids are reading throughout the week.
For Math, we will have a quiz on Wednesday regarding the follow-up "chapter" after the previous test. On Thursday, we won't have Math because of the program, and then on Friday, we will do something special for Math and then start in with chapter four next Monday.
For Science, we will have a quiz at some point this week, and at the end of the week I want to show an episode of Nova about the lunar landings of the 1970's. It's a fascinating one that I've shown every year that I've taught.
We all know that the fifth grade program is Thursday night at 7pm. The kids have been working hard; I'm looking forward to seeing it.
Here's this week's spelling list:
- agitate
- attribute
- canine
- despise
- extinct
- graze
- instinct
- mutual
- native
- unique
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