Plays of Week #12

Reminders for the Upcoming Week

Monday 11/3 = No School

Tuesday 11/4 = Library Check-out

Reading = Questioning within our reading is very important to make sense of what we are reading.  This week we are wrapping up the book Animal Senses by Pamela Hickman during whole group lessons.  We love how the book discusses  animals senses because it goes right along with our science.  The senses we are focusing on this week are smell, taste, and touch.

Writing = Comparing writing to a pizza!  We will continue to break down this analogy ans look at a mentor writing piece.  We will think about organization: having a strong beginning, middle, and end, voice: using emotion, sensory details, and figurative language, sentence fluency: using punctuation and thinking about sentence flow, and word choice.

Math = This week we are working with the final lessons of Chapter 4 and will most likely be testing around mid week next week.  We will be multiplying with regrouping, multiplying by a multi-digit number, multiplying across zeros, and problem solving.  As always be sure to practice multiplication facts at home to build confidence with any and all facts.

Spelling = New lists will be sent home on Tuesday (no school Monday) and we plan on testing on Friday.

Content = Science/Ecology - This past week in our Nature Unleashed program we received a visit from a Master Naturalist named Mr. Herman.  We learned so much about the specialized structures consumers have.  Please check out the pictures below to see the skulls Mr. Herman brought along with him.  This week we will be looking at how herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores interact in the ecosystems we have been studying (forests, ponds, and prairies).   

Highlights of the Week

We had several festive activities this week! 

 Thank you Mr. Holt!

 4th Grade received a visitor to learn about the specialized structures of teeth of consumers.  Mr. Herman (a naturalist) from the Missouri Conservation Department shared his knowledge with us and even brought his skull collection with us! The students learned so much!

Have you ever thought to compare quality writing to a Pizza?  Why not? :)

We are very proud of all the hard work this past quarter during Math Workshop