A Time to be Thankful

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11-15 Mid Quarter

 11/20 Midterms come home

11/21-11/25 Thanksgiving Break

Midterms

Midterms will be coming home with each student on Tuesday. They will include letter/percentage grades for math, language, social studies and science. The reading update will include your students current skills in asking and writing questions. The 2^nd quarter grades will be just like the 1^st quarter grades given at parent teacher conferences. Please return signed midtem section by November 30th.

Reading

This week the students worked with cause and effect. We have been reading books filled with cause and effect relationships. The students have been working with finding a effect when given a cause. We also used out independent reading time to find cause and effect relationships in our own books.

 We learned a helpful trick to check each cause and effect relationship. The students read the “effect” then say “because” and read their “cause” box. If their sentences makes sense they have a correct cause and effect relationship.

 Writing

We completed our first 5 paragraph essay this week! We brainstormed reasons we are thankful and then used a graphic organizer to brainstorm about our top three choices. The students then used a 5 paragraph format to construct their rough drafts. The final copies will come home on Tuesday with their midterms. The students are excited to share their published works with their families!

 

Math

The unit 4 test will be Tuesday. Study guides for the test will go home on Monday.

The test will include questions:

Word problems creating like groups

Perimeter

Area

Multiplication by 1 and 2

Place value

Comparisons

 

The students collected data on rock, paper, sissors to decide if the game was fair or not.

 

Science

The students now to get compare the weather for this week and last week. We also calculated the length of each of our days. We brainstormed all the different types of weather we have. The students will continue to learn about weather and studying climate.

There will be no post next week. Have a wonderful holiday break!

Have a wonderful weekend,

Mrs. Ray