Weekly Updates January 2024

Star 360 Testing - Next Week 

3rd Grade Reading - Wednesday (1/17)

4th Grade Reading - Thursday (1/18)

3rd Grade Math - Friday (1/19)

4th Grade Math - Tuesday (1/23)

 

3rd Grade OSP Lesson - (1/19)

K-5 Dance 6:00-8:00 - (2/2)

Dodgeball Tournament - (2/8)

 

We had a great week back to school after our break. We began our new novel, The One and Only Ivan. Students used text evidence to describe Ivan based on what he says, does and what other say about him. They also identified figurative language and narrator point of view. We also began Caesar's English, our new vocabulary program. We focused on Latin stems bi, pre, de, super and sub. We practiced analogies and broke down longer words, like superfluous, into parts to help decode meaning. Due to multiple absences we will take the quiz on the 5 Latin stems next week. We began our descriptive writing unit for Writers' Workshop. In Social Studies we began our unit on the Southeast region and how the region affects the rest of the United States. 

 

The third grade class is back strong after break as well. We are preparing to start our new novel and spent the week working with our new discussion partners. We read a book and discussed vocabulary and comprehension with our assigned partner. We also had minilessons where students practiced listening and speaking with a partner and staying on topic. We learned about Kate DiCamillo who is the author of our next novel, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. In Writers' Workshop we began our research writing project. Students selected an animal to research. This week we focused on habitat, diet and appearance. Eventually we will turn our notes into a multi-paragraph paper. In Science we continued our Balancing Forces unit. The class got a bag of materials and were able to experiment with chain reactions and push and pull force.