Aug 6, 2014 Newsletter
Happy Hump Day! Please see students’ Wednesday Folders for Progress Reports for the first quarter and mClass reports.
Reading:
Students will be working on character traits and their motivations. We will be looking at characters in our read aloud, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane and learning to describe their feelings and motivations in the story. We will be looking at events from the character’s point of view. How does a character’s actions move the story along or change events in the story? Also, students will be working on looking at root words as clues to understanding the meaning of unknown words.
Language/Writing:
Students are writing a narrative story based on a prompt. We will be looking for good sentence structure, organization of the story (beginning, middle and end), elaborative details and interesting verb choices. In upcoming lessons the students will be focusing on informative writing having a central topic with 3 main ideas with facts/details supporting or relating to this topic. We will also learn to identify and use characters,setting, problems/adventures, and conclusions as part of writing an entertaining narrative story.
Math: The students are reviewing rounding. We will begin geometry this week. The students will be studying shapes and their attributes. It is important that when they answer their journal prompt homework they use the correct vocabulary. Thanks
Please, Please have your child practice their subtraction facts. They will be taking timed quizzes. I have websites they can use up on my Blog. They need to be fluent in addition and subtraction facts before they can begin multiplication.
Science:
Mrs. Emerson’s class will begin their Science unit on the Human Body. We will be studying the skeletal system and muscular system.
Social Studies:The students are finishing the study of government, local, state and federal. We conducted a mock City Council meeting. They did an excellent job arguing their opinion for or against a new WaterSlide Park. They are finishing their citizenship webquest.
Important Dates:
Aug. 4-8 - Interim Reports go home this week
Aug. 13 - Ident - A - Kid
Aug. 19-21 CogAT Testing 9:30 each day
Aug. 20 Fall Pictures
Aug. 29 - Walk - A -Thon
If your student would like to participate in the Brassfield Running Club please follow the link below for sign ups.
http://brassfieldesrunners.blogspot.com/2014/08/fall-running-club-starting-on-august.html
