January Newsletter 2018
English-
This has been a great month! We concentrated a ton on writing, and revisited proper English conventions. We’ve been concentrating on short stories and extracting different information for research purposes. It’s important that the students start to go back to the readings/texts to find their answers.
Mid February, we will be dedicating ourselves to our research project. A packet of information will be coming home about the project. (It will also be posted to Google Classroom.) It will contain outlines, calendars with strict due dates, and everything your child needs to be successful with this project. It’s a great project, but it is very involved. So, it’s important that they adhere to the calendars in their packets.
Please keep checking Google Classroom!
Math-
Reading-
Students did a great job learning about Amelia Earhart. We focused on close reading strategies and inferencing. We continued to tackle higher order thinking questions which promotes a deeper level of comprehending. We discussed many “how”and “why” questions. I was impressed with their hard work. Way to go!
This week we will do some writing about Earhart’s accomplishments. Students will use the biography to extract relevant information to support their ideas. I am very pleased with the progress we are making in writing.
Please keep checking Google Classroom for announcements. Also, remind your student to bring a pleasure reading book to class and their charged Chromebooks.
Social Studies-
We are finishing January right at the end of our Ancient Egypt unit. We have listened to Egyptian songs, did an Escape Room style activity, put on a play about The Curse of King Tut, learned about Egyptian religion, and even looked at the mummification process online! We even made our own Papyrus! It’s been an exciting month for sure! We will be ending the month with a chapter 3 vocabulary quiz and there will be a chapter test the first week of February, extra help will be available after school. After that, we will be traveling to Ancient Greece! This is perfectly timed with our modern day Olympics! The Olympics originally started in Greece! Students should be reviewing the material on a regular basis as well as checking Google Classroom for homework each night!