EDITOR’S NOTE

The book fair is next week.

LITERACY

During TLT, we are assessing what they learned during the making connections TLT round last week. We also are giving them a pre-assessment that deals with asking questions during, while, and after reading. We will group students and start our asking questions round next week.

Strategy: analyzing text structure

Next week: analyzing text structure

Genre: adventure/fiction

Next Week: adventure/fiction

Text Elements/Structure: plot structure

Next week: plot structure

Writing Trait/Craft: sentence fluency

Next week: sentence fluency

Writing Mode/Unit of Study: Photo Essay (personal narrative)

Next week: Photo Essay (personal narrative)

Grammar/Conventions: subject/predicate

Next week: subject/predicate

Spelling: Unit 1

Next week: continue Unit 1

Vocabulary: survey, bellow, luscious, humble, rummage, mislead

Next week: ceremony, desire, pelt, misjudge, glower, intricate

MATH

Students reviewed the meanings of number sentences; practiced determining whether number sentences are true or false; reviewed the use of parentheses in number sentences; started learning vocabulary and notation for open sentences; and practiced solving open sentences.

Next week: Their Unit 3 test will be on Monday. Students will extend the base-ten place value system to decimals; review basic concepts and notation for decimals through hundredths; and compare and order decimals in tenths and hundredths.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Students learned basic map skills by working with more special-purpose maps and identifying regions, and students learned more about the Mississippi River.

Next week: Students will use new map skills to acquire information about locations, take their chapter 2 assessment, and start chapter 3 (The Peopling of the United States) by learning new vocabulary (culture, diverse, the Americas, American Indian, colony, Latino, Immigrant, European American, democracy, African American, Asian American, tenement

IMPORTANT DATES

Week of 11/8 Book Fair

11/8 Math Test

11/9 Social Studies Test

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