March 23-27

Welcome back!  Hope you had a wonderful spring break and are ready to end our year with energy and enthusiasm!

Reading This week we continued working on character lessons.  We looked at...

• noticing when things happen over and over to a character
• using what I know about characters to predict
• moral of a story/lessons learned
• thinking about how I can be like a character

Question:  Who is a character you would like to be more like?  What lesson(s) did this character learn in the book they are featured in?

 

Writing
We began our unit on book reviews.  We began the unit by learning...

• what is a book review
• how to persuade others with a book review
• parts of a book review
• structures (retell, opinion, reasons, closure)
• how to select a book to review

Question:  What is a book review?  How is it similar/different from a persuasive book?

Math 
This week we focused on...

• adding/subtracting
• double digit addition (plus/minus ten)

Question:  What is easier for you, adding or subtracting by 10's?

Social Studies
This week focused on an introduction to our new unit, producers and consumers.  We learned about...

• goods and services
• the process of taking products from start (producers) to finish (consumers)

Question:  What is the difference between a producer and a consumer?

Upcoming dates:

3/27-Author visit

4/1-Late Start

4/3-No School

4/10-Trivia Night

5/8-Field Trip

5/21-Last Day of School