"Fall" Into our Week

Reader's Workshop:
This week we will be reading Angela Johnson's "Julius," a fantasy story about a Pig from Alaska who teaches Maya and her family important lessons about fun and sharing. Our comprehension skill focus is Fantasy and Realism. During the week students will learn that authors sometimes use fantasy, or make-believe details, to make a story interesting or funny.

Writer's Workshop:
For the remainder of the nine weeks we will continue our focus on the narrative writing genre. This week students will publish their stories inspired by Cynthia Rylant's "The Relatives Came."

Math Investigations:
This week we will continue our focus on counting using several different activities. In Guess My Number students will be given clues and use the number line to correctly name the number being described. Students will also be introduced to the hundreds chart and shown how it can be used as a tool in addition situations. In Today's Number students will explore how to use addition sentences to express a given number. Students will continue to explore the clock moving toward telling time to the quarter hour.

Science Workshop:
This week students will explore how we use our five senses to make observations.

Spelling Words:
every, about, again, other, give, when, went, jump, much, just, then, stop, off, frog, from

A Peek at our Week

Reading:
This week we focused on story structure. We learned that all stories have a beginning, middle, and an end. This week and next week we will be reading Dav Pilkey’s Dragon Gets By, a fantasy story about a dragon who’s shopping trip to the food store becomes an adventure.

Writing:
This week we continued working on narrative writing. Students are finishing up a narrative piece inspired by Cynthia Rylant’s The Relative’s Came.

Math:
Students used pattern blocks and discovered that there are smaller shapes hidden inside of larger ones. They also used cubes to find many different way to add to numbers to make 10.