Ms. Mottaz's Class

Happy Friday!

A Few Important Things

Tuesday will be a C Day. The district is adjusting the ABCD calendar has been adjusted by a day. Ross kids will have PE on Thursday and Mottaz kids on Friday.
No School on Monday: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Friday Folder

HomeLinks for Unit 6 in math: this unit covers graphing and more word problem work. We will start this unit on Tuesday.
Unit 9 Fundations information: Unit 8 is a short unit, so we will be finishing it next week and starting on Unit 9.
Chat and Chew: information is in the Friday folder, this is an optional activity for students to participate in if they would like. Students will read the assigned book and then discuss it with a parent volunteer over lunch.

Our Learning for Next Week

Students have been comparing information found in articles about a topic.
Next week, students will identify facts that are in just one article and facts that are in both articles and creating a poster to show the facts.

We started publishing our informational piece about an animal this week.
Next week, we will continue publishing and start adding text features to their writing.

We took our Unit 5 test today. It will be coming home next week.
On Tuesday, we will start Unit 6. This unit starts with creating bar graphs and analyzing the data. This is a fun unit for students because they get an opportunity to ask classmates questions and find things they have in common.

We will wrap up Unit 8 next week. This unit covers AR and OR words. The students are expected to be able to read and write words containing these r-controlled vowels. They have also learned how to mark up the words.
We will start Unit 9 next week. This unit works on ER, IR and UR words as r-controlled vowels. This one can be more difficult because all three spelling patterns make the same sound.

This week students showed their knowledge of weathering, erosion and deposition.
Next week, we will start to discuss landforms that are created through weathering, erosion and deposition.

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