Math - Finding Factors - What are prime and composite numbers?
Reading - We're reading nonfiction books. Questions you can ask your children:
How do we read nonfiction books differently than fiction books?
What do we look for in nonfiction books?
Read Aloud - Wonder
Writing - This month we're working on basics - spaces between words, punctuation, phonemic awareness, using our word walls
Social Studies - N/A
Science - Energy - What is it? How does it work?
Idiom of the Week - Idioms 2021-2022
READING REMINDERS:
Read from your book baggie EVERY night
Complete your weekly Reading Log EVERY night
Strategies for Reading:
When you read scoop 2 or 3 words at a time
Read THROUGH every word
Pay attention to punctuation .?!""
Math - Perimeter and Area later in the month
Reading - We're reading nonfiction books. Questions you can ask your children:
How do we read nonfiction books differently than fiction books?
What do we look for in nonfiction books?
Read Aloud - What is LEGO?
Writing - Opinion writing both personal stories and later this month persuasive stories.
Social Studies - Native Americans, Iroquois and Algonquian - Who are they? Where did they live? What did they do? What did they eat?
Science - Animals have sensory receptors that gather information and perceive the world
Idiom of the Week - Idioms 2021-2022
READING REMINDERS:
Read from your book baggie EVERY night
Complete your weekly Reading Log EVERY night
Strategies for Reading:
When you read scoop 2 or 3 words at a time
Read THROUGH every word
Pay attention to punctuation .?!""
Math -
We're multiplying single digit numbers by 2, 3, and 4 digit numbers, vertically.
ie: 2, 430
x 2
We're adding and subtracting 4 and 5 digit numbers by 4 and 5 digit numbers
Reading - We're reading nonfiction books. Questions you can ask your children:
How do we read nonfiction books differently than fiction books?
What do we look for in nonfiction books?
Read Aloud -
Just Finished: Nubs, The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine, and a Miracle
Next up....TBA :)
Writing - Opinion Writing
Social Studies - Native Americans, Iroquois and Algonquian - Who are they? Where did they live? What did they do? What did they eat?
Science - Animals have sensory receptors that gather information and perceive the world
Idiom of the Week - Idioms 2021-2022
READING REMINDERS:
Read from your book baggie EVERY night
Complete your weekly Reading Log EVERY night
Strategies for Reading:
When you read scoop 2 or 3 words at a time
Read THROUGH every word
Pay attention to punctuation .?!""
Math - Rounding numbers up to the 10,000s place using endpoints and midpoints.
Reading - Read from your book baggie EVERY night
Strategies for Reading:
When you read scoop 2 or 3 words at a time
Read THROUGH every word
Pay attention to punctuation .?!""
Read Aloud - We will be finishing Jeremy Thatcher Dragon Hatcher, by Bruce Coville this week!
Writing - This week we are celebrating our Fiction stories and starting new ones!
Science - Animals have sensory receptors that gather information and perceive the world
Idiom of the Week - Needle in a Haystack, Heart of Gold, Piece of Cake, It's a Full House! Idioms 2021-2022
Math - Place Value, up to the millions place
Reading - Please see each of your own Post-its for your "Reading Reminders"
ie: When you read scoop 2 or 3 words at a time
ie: Read THROUGH every word
ie: Pay attention to punctuation .?!""
Read Aloud - The Monster's Ring, by Bruce Coville
Writing - 1. We're writing fictional stories
2. Writing sentences with capitals and punctuation
3. Writing multisyllabic words with a schwa
Social Studies - Knowing the 7 Continents and Oceans
Idiom of the Week - Idioms 2021-2022