Hello! It has been a while! I hope all of your Thanksgiving breaks were great, and I am reading about some of them in the kiddos journals. Since there is nothing to report from last week, I'll give you some insight onto how the week and maybe next week will look.
Math: We took a break from division, but now we're back. We are learning about different rules, different tricks, and different tools that can help us. Division is kind of tricky still, so I think we are going to spend some more time on it. We get the concept, but some of us are not building the relationship bridge between multiplication and division. So, we are going to tackle that before the test. Reading: We are still focusing on expository text, and author's point of view. We have mastered finding the point of view, but we are not always able to find details to support the POV. However, sometimes we can find 2-4 details, but we are not able to connect them to find a POV. So, hopefully by the end of the week, we master it, and can comfortably move on. We are also working with more silent letters, and blended letters. Our spelling list has a lot of them, and got all of them during the pre-test. We are moving from prefix to suffix. We are going to make flashcards for those as well, and put both on a big ring. We will do some practice with not only identifying the prefix and or suffix, but identifying the new meaning of the word. Social Studies: We will take our test on Tuesday, to end our unit on communities. We also have Concordia students over, and they are teaching lessons on goods and services that can be found in different communities. I really like how they made that connection for the students. We will start a social studies project, that will be mostly done in class. I will give the students an option to take it home or work on it in school. The project will consist of them receiving one of their choices from the community workers chart we made. From there they will complete a simple "About Me" activity, where they speak as if they are in that position. They tell what job they have, what they do, how they help the community/communities, and why they are important. They will then draw a picture of themselves dressed in their work uniform. Science: We started a new chapter today that is focusing on living things, the life cycle of animals, and how to classify things. Yesterday we practiced our classification skills but classifying/grouping shells. They seemed to really enjoy that, and they loved putting the shells to their ears. Today we talked about the many ways to classify animals. We practiced grouping a number of animals based off speed, size, and they way they look. Religion: We will start our Christmas Unit next week. I am excited to start it, and I'm sure the students will love the big end result. We are also getting ready to start our heavy loaded practice weeks. By the middle of next week we should have the verse memorized, and start working on one of the songs. This Friday, we will recite the second paragraph (Luke 2:3-5) and then on Tuesday, they will say Luke 2:6-7. We are picking up the pace so that they are ready to go for rehearsals. If you have any questions please feel free to ask them! Important Information:
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