Down Third Street
Mrs. Newman's Classroom Newsletter
Language Arts
Through our nonfiction text, Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest…, students will learn about some of our most extreme places on Earth. We will review various types of text features and how these tools can help the reader better understand and make connections to our reading. Students will apply this skill to their writing as we add several of these features to our animal fact guides. In grammar, our focus is on linking verbs. Students will learn how these verbs relate to the action and helping verbs we’ve been studying in previous weeks.
Math
This week, we will continue to work through skills in unit 3. At the beginning of the week, students will practice their rounding skills as they estimate costs. Throughout the rest of the week, students will learn the partial sums method in addition, column addition and using the counting-up method for subtraction. We will practice these new skills together in math workshop, as well as in nightly homework.
Theme
This week, we will begin focusing on classification and animal groups. Students will use their researching tools to learn more about the various classes (mammals, fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians) and investigate how they are similar and different from one another. These investigations will then lead to us picking an endangered animal from our rain forest ecosystem.
Important Dates
10/12 AR points due
10/13-10/16 Fall Break-No School
10/17 AR treat train for those who reached their AR goal
10/31 Character Parade (more info coming soon!)