Classroom Activities for the Week of Nov. 8-Nov.12th

Greetings parents and students!

Important Reminders:

This Monday is our picture day.  Thank you to everyone who has returned the form with the money for the photo package.  If you have not sent in your form and money yet, we can accept it no later than this Tuesday, Nov. 9th.  I will send home an additional form today for any students who think they may have 'misplaced' their original copy.

CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES

Math:

This week in Math lessons we will be working on understanding when it is best to use the 'old school' pen and pencil method for multiplying, and when it is best to use our mental math skills.  We will also take time to review and practice our multiplication skills, making sure we can accurately multiply two, there, and four digit numbers.  We will then move on to multiplying money, and understanding how to multiply with decimal points, and understanding factorization.  Finally, we will continue to practice choosing strategies for and solving word problems.

Reading:

In reading this week we will be reading a non-fiction booklet titled 'The Story of Immigration'.  We will continue to practice our reading for information, and note taking skills from last week.  Each student will then write their weekly reading letter about what they learned about our social studies topic of immigration from what they read within the booklet.  We will also spend our first session with our Grade 1 reading buddies this week.

Writing:

We will be focusing this week on writing a scene from a play.  We will discuss the differences between a written play and a storybook.  We will also discuss key elements of a play, including setting, directions, and character dialogue.  This corresponds nicely with the work we've done with the play 'First Stop Ellis Island' in our Social Studies lessons, and will build to next week's social studies activity where we will be writing and performing our very own scene.

Social Studies:

In social studies lessons this week we will continue to work on our 'read-throughs' of our play.  We will also work on trying to settle on who will play each part in each of the two groups.  Our social studies lessons will also be integrated with our reading and writing lessons, as we will be learning about immigration in reading classes, and preparing to create a new scene for our play during our writing classes.

Grammar:

We will be working on understanding how to properly use apostrophe S to show possession.

Spelling:

We will focus on common abbreviations such as the days of the week and months of the year.


I hope everyone has a great week.  All the best,

Jordan Rose