Sunday, November 25, 2012

Week of November 26-30



Welcome back after the long weekend.  I hope all of you enjoyed your Thanksgiving and had a chance to spend time with family and friends. 
This week in Room 210, we will be reading the selection, The Planets in Our Solar System, written by Franklyn M. Branley.  (Unit 2, Week 4)  The strategy will be to generate questions and the skill is summarizing.  Students will ask and answer questions about this informational text and look back at the text often to find the answers.  A summary is a short statement of the most important ideas in a paragraph, passage, or selection.  It includes the main ideas and the most important details.  (CCSS 3.RI.1-2)
The spelling words are Consonant Blends-- three letter blends such as thr, spr, scr, and str.  In grammar, students will learn about singular and plural possessive nouns.  They will have a Weekly Reading Assessment on Friday that will assess all the skills learned and practiced during the week.

We are continuing our math work with multiplication and will have the Chapter 3 assessment on Wednesday, November 28.  We are wrapping up or exploration of rocks and minerals and will move on to soil.  Students have really enjoyed this chapter and it’s great to have so many specimens come in for us to look at!  Later this week will examine soil (composted horse manure) and see what kinds of critters lurk in and around dirt!

IMPORTANT DATES:
December 4 – Popcorn Day
December 11 and 12 – PTA Stop and Shop

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