September 16- 20

I'm Back!

I am back, and ready to go!  I am sad to leave my baby Scarlett, but I am eager to get this year going with these kids.

In Math this week,we will be working on addition and subtraction.  On Monday, we are following patterns for both, addition and subtraction.  Pay close attention to the agenda...they have two sheets for homework, but only have to complete odds or evens!  On Tuesday, we will add and subtract whole numbers and money.  Wednesday, we will do review activities.  Thursday, students will estimate sums and differences, and Friday we will focus on writing equations.  

In Science, we will finish up activities for chapter 3, and specialized structures in our ecosystems.  We will have a quiz on Thursday. On Friday, we will begin chapter 4.  

In Reading, we will finish up what we missed last week on Main Idea.  By Wednesday, students will look at a new whole class reading book, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.  We will use this book to help study story structures.  Next week we will add in literature circles to their whole class reading.  

In English Language Arts, we will finish our study on sentence types.  By Thursday, students will begin studying parts of speech, beginning with nouns, verbs.  Students will also venture into the front of their notebooks.  This is a strategy based writing that allows students the opportunity to become more fluent writers.  They will be introduced to many ways to write, and become more thoughtful in their writing process.  On Friday, we will take a break from everything, and take a post test on some concepts we have been focusing on more closely, such as main idea and story structure.

Spelling this unit will focus on long I spellings, and homographs.

This is an RTI week.  We are focusing lessons on story structure.  

Thank you for your patience and understanding while I was on leave.  Hopefully we will get the hang of each other pretty quickly.  Today was a great start for me.  

My Blog will be updated earlier in the day on Mondays, but I was having trouble logging in this morning.  Of course, my battle with technology starts on my first day back!  Thank you for your understanding.