November 19-21

Notes for the week...

** This week will be a short week. We will not have class on Thursday and Friday, November 22nd and 23rd.

**Wednesday we will be celebrating Thanksgiving as a class. We will be eating lunch together at 12:30 pm. We have made plans to purchase our lunch with the school cafeteria, however, we would love any additional contributions to the celebration, especially pies or other desserts! :) Parents, please feel free to come celebrate with us!

This week in class...

Language Arts

In Language Arts this week, we will continue our next Guided Reading novel, The Egypt Game. We'll also be adding more skills to our "Sketchnoting" repertoire to help us take notes in a more brain-friendly way.  In Writing, we will continue to work on our scripts for our Public Service Announcements, and we will learn how to use "storyboarding" to plan the visual aspects of our videos.

Math
This week we will begin studying division in class. We will look at several concrete and pictorial strategies for understanding division and how these concepts transfer to the standard algorithm, most notably the Octopus Model and Montessori Manipulatives.

Homework:

Monday: One Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL D.6
Tuesday: One Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL D.3

Wednesday:One Xtramath.org lesson

Science

Last week we finished up our unit on Ancient Egypt. We will use our short week to complete posters we are creating to promote recycling and waste reduction in the school. We will finish our posters this week and them have them laminated so that we can put them up in the cafeteria.

Thank you for all of your support, parents! Please feel free to email us if you have any

questions.

Ms. Amy and Mr. Andrew