Plays of Week #13

Reminders for the Upcoming Week

Tuesday 11/11= Library Check-out and Field Trip to the Symphony

Thursday 11/13 = Tentative Math Test

Wear Green and Yellow for our visit from students from Parkview (our feeder school)

Friday 11/14 = Spelling Test

Reading = We are finishing up our unit 3 this week and beginning Unit 4 within our Reading: Analyzing Test Structure with fiction and Narrative Nonfiction.    We will explore text structure: character, setting, plot, and conflict.

Writing = This week we are wrapping up looking at our Mentor Writing piece.  I was impressed how well Team Meyer worked with ideas, organization, voice, and sentence fluency this past week.  We will begin this week with Word Choice and Conventions.  Then we will move to incorporating all the 6 Traits of Quality Writing in our own pieces.

Math = Within chapter 4 a large focus is on the Distributive Property of Multiplication.  There is a picture below of what we have been using to show our thinking.  This week we are working with the problem solving investigation and Multiplying Across Zeros.  Our plan is to Test over Chapter 4 Thursday (watch the assignment sheet for updates.).  We may move it to Friday if more review is needed.  Please continue to practice multiplication facts.

Spelling = New lists will be sent home on Monday and we plan on testing on Friday.

Content = Science/Ecology - On Monday, we will wrap up our Nature Unleashed unit.  In the spring we will take a field trip when we revisit these topics and travel to the Springfield Nature Center.  Later in the week, we will begin our Social Studies unit which focuses on Missouri Government.

Highlights of the Week

We are so happy to finally Officially Introduce our Newest Members of Team Meyer!  We are very lucky to have these three join us since the beginning of the year! :)

Working with graphic organizers for Organization of Ideas this week in Writing

Cursive Practice is in full swing for Team Meyer

The Distributive Property has been a huge focus this week in Math

Be sure to look over the newsletter that was sent home on Friday!  Donations begin on Monday so please send those pennies in!  Also, be sure to check out the bottom where Mr. Holt will have to do some fun activities when we raise the money.

Pictures were sent home on Friday!  Team Meyer looked great!

Adding some vocabulary after we finished reading Animal Senses.

We are impressed with our team members who finished Diary of a Wimpy Kid!