Reading Week was a SUCCESS!

Happy Friday!

We had such a successful Read Week 2018!  We wrapped it up with some great stars reading today at RBE Reading with the Stars.  Click here for pictures from the entire week.

Next week will be a regular week.  Below is our plan for the week.

Reading

• We will be working on theme next week.  We will be discussing the difference between theme (what the author wants you to take away) vs. the main idea (what it is mostly about).
• We will be working on this for the next two weeks.

Writing

• We are close to finished with our rough drafts of our Which is Better writing.  After they finish their main idea paragraph, we will discuss their opinion paragraph.  They will have to decide which topic they feel is better and then explain with details why it is better.  
• We will also be reviewing text features and students will decide which text features is the best for each page.  

Math

• We are continuing on Unit 7 in math.  We will be focusing on measurement next week.  The students will learn about yards and meters. 
• This week, students learned a new game called Basketball Addition.  This is available on Everyday Math Online and we will send home a copy for their homework folder next week.

Science

• Students will continue learning about water around the world.  Next week, they will focus on where in the world is the water frozen.  We will also discussing the difference between fresh water and salt water.  We will be looking at maps to locate fresh water and salt water.

Spelling

• Next week, we will start focusing on r-influenced words.  Next week, we will focus on -ar and -ir words.  The words are part, start, harm, sharp, dark, bird, first, girl, birth, swirl.
• We have talked with the students about the importance of studying their words and that our goal when learning the words is to learn them and then spell them correctly in our writing.  The goal isn't to learn them for a week and then forget them.  

Homework

• We will have our normal homework again next week.  As a reminder, this is 15 minutes of reading, 5 minutes of spelling practice and 10 minutes of math.  The math can be online games, games in their folder, practicing facts or any other way they are practicing a math concept we have learned. 

I hope that you have a wonderful weekend!