Activities for the Week of November 15th-November 18th

Dear parents and students,

Greetings from Discovery School.  I hope everyone is well.

Dates to remember:

Friday, November 19th-  No School!  As all of our Discovery School Teachers will be taking part in our 6th annual Teacher's Workshop.

Wednesday, November 24th we will have our class 'holiday lunch'.  All parents are invited to enjoy a delicious lunch with us starting at 12:30.  Following the lunch we will have two performances of our class play, 'First Stop Ellis Island'.  We will be ordering our holiday lunch from the cafeteria for parents and students.  I will be sending home a menu and order form this week.  If you can make it we look forward to sharing a nice lunch and performance with you.

Classroom Activities This Week:

Math

This Wednesday we will be having our Chapter 5 Math Test.  The test will cover all the multiplication and word problems that we've been working on over the past 2 and a half weeks.  As usual I will be sending home a practice test Tuesday afternoon for the students to practice and study.  Thursday will mark the beginning of Chapter 6, where we will be learning to multiply two, two digit numbers.

Reading

In reading this week we will finish reading for information from our booklet, 'The Story of Immigration'. We will be handing in our 'reading letter' on Tuesday detailing all the interesting things that we've learned about Immigration in America, and how this information relates to the characters in our play, 'First Stop Ellis Island'.  We will also be reading the portion of the booklet about the immigration laws that have been enacted in America together, and decide what is fair and unfair about these laws.

Writing

In writing lessons we will practice proofreading and editing our 'reading letters' together to make sure we all hand in our best work.  We will also be focusing on the concept of perspective, and the importance of being able to see things from different perspectives.  To practice this we will be writing about the experience of immigration from the perspective of one of the characters in our play.

Grammar

We will be learning about prefixes and suffixes and how they change the meaning of words, and how understanding prefixes and suffixes can help us figure out what new words mean.  The prefixes and suffixes that we will focus on are:  un, mis, dis, er, and est.

Spelling

Our spelling words will focus on the CH sound at the end of words.  Our words are:  fetch, pinch, drench, couch, clutch, torch, ranch, scratch, reach, stretch, branch, twitch, church, patch, sketch.

Social Studies

Now that we have completed writing our additional scene and chosen our parts, both groups will work on deciding and practicing the staging of their play.  The students will have to decide how to properly act out the play and whether or not they will memorize their lines.  Our social studies topic of Immigration in America is also fully integrated with our reading and writing lessons this week.

I hope everyone has a great week.  Thanks for reading and look forward to seeing you all next Wednesday!!    Sincerely,

Jordan Rose