Academic Updates

This week is a short week. There will be no homework!

Reading: We will continue or study on Non-Fiction! We made an anchor chart last week on our Non-Fiction features. We talked about how a non-fiction book has:

Photograph-to show something
Caption-To tell about the photograph
Label-to name something
Illustration-to show a picture
Map-to show where something is
Title-to name the book
Diagram-to show what something is, to show inside, to give a picture of something

We will do a non-fiction hunt and find these feature this week. We will be looking a different books and magazines to find them!

Writing: We are beginning to revise our personal narratives this week. We are starting to process of publishing our pieces. We will begin to use everything we learned to revise our writing. We will continue to compare our writing to the writing of George McClements (The Veggie Monster). He uses ellipses to build excitement, writes exact words to show action or create a movie in the reader's mind and writes words that pop out to tell the reader to read with a strong voice. These pieces will come home by Christmas break! Your child will show you their progression of how they transformed into an amazing author!

Math: In Saxon, there is constant spiral review of all new concepts that are learned. We are learning how to make addition number sentences with a 0 as an addend. I will start sending home what is called "Math News" so that every parent is more aware of what we are doing in math. Our class does math rotations.

Science/Social Studies: We will continue our unit on Pilgrims and Indians!

Thanksgiving Feast is tomorrow 11/25-also last day of school for the week.

Stand by for more academic information for next week!!

Have a fabulous Thanksgiving and look for some cool pictures and video of our Feast!