Hitchcock Highlights
Wednesday, Sept. 9th
Important Dates to Remember
Wednesday, Sept. 9th- Topic 2 math test
Writer's Notebook Decorating Day-Friday, Sept. 11th-
We will be personalizing our Writer's Notebook on Friday. Students are encouraged to bring in photos of family pets, friends, hobbies, etc. They can bring in scrapbook paper, stickers, words cut from magazines, photographs, drawings they have made, etc.
Coming Up this Week
Native Americans- People of the Eastern Woodlands, Plains, and NW Coast. We will be sharing our paper slide videos, making Poplets on the iPads to organize our Native American information, and making totem poles! Thanks again for all the shoeboxes!
Math
We will conclude our focus on decimals, with a study guide over Topic 2 that will come home on Tuesday and a test on Wednesday (adding and subtracting decimals).
Writing-
Focus on strong verbs, voice, word choice, and point of view.
Spelling
Lesson 4
Reading- We are reading one of my favorite books, Shiloh, by Phyllis Reyonalds Naylor. I am using this book to reinforce the habits of great readers (metacognition (thinking about our thinking as we read), asking questions, checking for understanding, visualization as we read (the movie in our heads) and characterization (how characters develop and change throughout the story. We are also learning how to do close reading which is taking a small chunk of the text and really digging in deep to extract more meaning.
Essential Question: What do great readers do to better comprehend the text?
Target Skills: dialect, point of view, characterization
Target Strategies: Monitor and Clarify, visualization, asking questions
Specials Schedule
Tuesday- Library/Strings
Wednesday- Art/Band
Thursday- Counselor/PE/Strings
Friday-Music/PE/Strings
THANK YOU!!!
Band/String Days
Band: B, D and every other E
Friday Weekly Reflections
The reflection sheet no longer needs to be signed and returned. :)