This week we continued our unit about the importance of Earth’s fresh water. Our lesson was called, “Can we make it rain?” We learned about the processes of evaporation and condensation, and the role they play in replenishing our fresh water.

 

You can encourage your child’s curiosity at home! Invite your child to observe what happens when the hot water is turned on for a shower or bath. After 5 minutes or so, what happens? You should both be able to notice not only how windows and mirrors fog up, but also the way that it feels to breathe the air. Some of the hot water is evaporating and filling the room with water vapor—this is what you’re feeling as you breathe in. As the water vapor comes in contact with the cool surface of a mirror or window, it condenses back to liquid water again, which is why these appear foggy. You can observe that the "fogginess" is actually tiny droplets of water.

Welcome back to literacy! This week, students will reacquainted with the classroom procedures and rules. They will also be learning about non-fiction text.

 

Home reading logs will begin today and will be due on Friday. This change is so that students can receive their reading logs in their Friday Folder, thus increasing the likelihood that they arrive home. 

Students will only have class twice this week as we will be MAP testing on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. As such, students will be focusing on some key writing components (indenting, topic sentences, and concluding sentences. They will also be reading their assigned literacy group book. Students will be graded on the writing focus this week and will not have a warm-up grade for this week. Students will have a Reading Homework Log for this week, due on Monday, 12/9/19.

 

Please check your child's grades on Infinite Campus! All past assignments are due by Wednesday, 12/11/19. If you have any questions regarding past assignments, please email me. Some assignments have been posted on this forum; however, if you do not see the one you need, please email me prior to 12/10/19.

Students will be able to write a on-demand paragraph about a topic.

 

Students will dive into how to write a complete paragraph. We will be focusing on writing different types of topic sentences and planning with graphic organizers.

 

Students will be working in small groups this week. They will be rotating in groups between the following centers: reading, phonics, mini-lesson work, free-choice, and meeting with the teacher. The reading center will consist of reading the literacy group book assigned to them this week. The phonics center will consist of a child-specific spelling list and worksheet/activities.

 

A. Complete the nightly reading homework every night: Read for 20-30 minutes and write a reading response using complete sentences. (This will be coming home with students on Monday, it is due Monday, November 4).

B. Practice individual spelling list. (Focusing on the common spelling patterns will be most beneficial with these lists).

C. Practice October's No Excuse Words www.spellingcity.com