Weekly Update

Writing/Spelling

This past week in writing, we made sure to add persuasive words and transition words in our essays.  We also discussed that we need to add facts that will persuade our audiences.  We will continue to work on these things and editing as we continue to develop our essays.  We will finish these persuasive essays by our celebration date of Friday, December 4th.  The next Spelling Test will be Friday, December 11th.

Reading

In reading this past week, we continued to study the structure of nonfiction texts.  We will begin to look at more challenging texts that use multiple text structures.  Again, this is helping us to better read and understand nonfiction texts.  

We practiced identifying text structures by highlighting clues
and key words in short passages with our reading partner!  

Math

This past week we learned the steps of long division!  This is still challenging for some students, and we will continue to work on learning and correctly using the multiple steps.  Below is a picture Division Man, who helps us to remember those steps!  It is important that students keep up with the math homework pages that are assigned a couple times each week during the months of November and December.  It is also vital that they know their facts!

Social Studies

In Social Studies, we have finished Chapter 3 and have started Chapter 4.  Students find Chapter 4 pretty interesting as it explains westward expansion and Lewis and Clark!

  Other Important Info.

• Tomorrow students will take home The Great American Spell Check newspaper to help them in studying for the classroom spelling bee and possibly the school-wide spelling bee.  Our classroom spelling bee will be held in December before winter break.  Our classroom winners will then participate in the school spelling bee on January 15th!  Good luck, students!  
• Don't forget to be filling out the Six Flags Read to Succeed Reading Logs.  If a student is wanting to participate, they need to read 6 hours in addition to their class reading log minutes.  As a reward, they will receive a free admission ticket to Six Flags theme park. These reading logs are due Friday, February 12th.  
• Thanksgiving Break starts Wednesday, November 25th.  School will resume Monday, November 30th (an "E" day).  Have a great break!