Dear Parents:
I hope you had a very restful and enjoyable Thanksgiving break with your family. Thank you to all the parents who provided food for our Thanksgiving Feast last Tuesday. The students had a great time eating, discussing what they are thankful for, making a craft, and creating a Pilgrim Hat dessert. Thanks also to Mrs. Purcell for organizing this fun activity for our students. Listed below is an overview of our upcoming week:
READING - Our focus in reading will now shift to learning strategies for comprehending nonfiction text. I have placed a leveled nonfiction text in your child's book basket for him/her to read during our literacy time. Please encourage your child to read nonfiction books at home as well. We will build upon the use of text features students learned in second grade to do higher level thinking as we comprehend the text. This week students will learn a strategy called Flip It in which they turn a heading/sub-heading into a question, using text evidence to answer their question.
WRITING - Students will write an opinion piece this week on a topic that they are passionate about and support their opinion with three reasons and supporting details. I am providing students with constructive feedback on their first opinion paper in order for them to build upon what they learned and write an even stronger piece during this week.
SCIENCE - We will complete our Objects in the Sky unit with a review tomorrow and a test on Tuesday. On Wednesday, students will return to Mr. Otto's class for Social Studies to begin an economics unit.
MATH - Students are continuing to practice using multiplication and division strategies to solve word problems. They are also learning how to determine when to multiply or divide based upon the information given in the word problem. This week we will focus on the commutative, associative, and distributive math properties as we problem solve.
IMPORTANT DATES: Tuesday, December 1 - Interims go home
Sincerely,
Ms. Underwood
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