Literacy:
Fiesta Catracha!
Before the break students started highlghting important/interesting information. This week and next week they will create posters and illustrate them. Oct. 9th we will have a degustacion de comda tipica in our classroom. Students should wear a traje tipico this day.
Book Report:
Our first book report was schedule for Sept. 7th, but we were on the break that day. I do not want to assign a book report on a book the children probably read a long time ago. Therefore, please make sure students are reading a new book. The next book report will be scheduled for Oct. 5th, 2009.
These days, we have begun again our daily activities after the break and are ready to continue working and learning! This is what we will be doing this week:
Read Aloud:
-We will finish reading a book we started reading last week “The Three Questions”, based on a story by Leo Tolstoy, written and illustrated by John J. Muth. We have focused on making prediction and using context clues.
-We will begin reading the story “Just a Dream”, by Chris Van Allsburg, we will focus on making inferences and predictions, and irregular verbs.
Shared Reading:
- An excerpt from “Three Questions”, we will focus on easy steps to using context clues:
1) Identify /highlight the unknown word
2) Identify /highlight the context clues
3) Come up with a synonym of the word that you think makes sense
4) Replace the unknown word with the synonym
5) Reread to find out if the synonym sounds right!
We will be reading the poem “Who Cares about Trees? “. We will focus on discussing poetry as a text structure:
1) Compare and contrast poetry to other text structures
2) We will identify common features that we have noticed about poetry: stanzas, white spaces, creative punctuation, phrases units versus complete sentences, rhyme, etc.
We will also make connections between the poem and the story “Just a Dream”.
Interactive Writing:
We will be completing a Cause (different ways humans are harming the environment) and Effect (the consequences of our actions) chart based on what we read on Just a Dream.
Independent Writing:
Students will be explaining some of Walter’s dream, explaining their cause and effect, and coming up with possible solutions.
New Word Wall Words:
couldn’t, doesn’t, finally, already, possible
Students will also participate in Independent Reading, Centers and Guided Reading groups.
We will continue to Read Aloud for fun: “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing”!
Math: Last week we read a book called "One Grain of Rice" by Demi. We will be working on an assignment that will continue to use this book as our resource. We are doubling rice every day and then calculating the totals after 30 days. This is great practice for adding large numbers, as well as place value. This week we will also be testing place value. Please be sure that your child knows how to read and write numbers up to 100 million.
Please also review the 2 and 3 times tables, as this will be our timed test for Thursday morning.
Science: Today we conducted an experiment in the Science lab about mixing water. We will continue this experiment tomorrow and students will then have a short assignment following the Scientific Method (as discussed in class). We will then be doing interactive writing on this same topic.
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