Week 11

From now on, we will start with a post from our class blog reporters:

This week our class learned how to use a multiplication table. We are also finishing our writing pieces. We just finished making our salt dough maps on our landforms. We will have family Friday and we will be decorating shopping bags.

                                   By: Jasey and Jane

We've had a lot of activities this Friday. Family Friday was a wonderful time for us to share our talents with the community as our students decorated food delivery bags for God's Love We Deliver.

We are also wrapping up our work with continents in the next week. As some of you have seen, our salt dough maps are complete and students have worked in groups to collect facts on famous landforms on each continent. They have also been working on presenting information and we have some presentations filmed. Please check out our video playlist after Saturday for some presentations. There will be seven films in total posted by the end of this upcoming week.

Here's what's coming up:

• On Monday, we start our work with Nonfiction texts. The focus of this reading unit is to learn how to find the main ideas of texts and determine the importance of what we are reading. We want our children to read books to learn.
• We will also start a new writing unit. Students will write Information Books, where your child will be asked to teach others about a topic that they know a lot about. You will also notice that the Writer's Notebook will contain a new menu for the Wednesday night writing homework. This is to encourage your child to look for writing ideas that will help with our nonfiction writing. 
• In Social Studies, we will begin to exam the concept of Culture. For our purposes, culture will be defined as the rules and habits of a group of people. Culture can include foods, games, art , shelter, history, and geography. Your child will receive an Ancestor Research Sheet and we ask you to help your child to fill it in so that we can learn more about our individual cultures.
• We will have our Chapter 4 Math test on Tuesday. Chapter 5 will also allow us more time to practice and retain the multiplication facts. 
• We are Buddy classes with Ms. Ancona's 1st grade class. We briefly said hello to each other at our Friday assembly and we'll meet up on Wednesday afternoons from now on. 

Have a wonderful weekend!