Plays of Week #24

Reminders for the Upcoming Week

Tuesday 2/10 = Library Check-out

Wednesday 2/11 = 5th graders will be selling Valentine's Grams during lunch for 25 cents each

Thursday 2/12 = Spelling Test and Valentine's Party at 2:30

Friday 2/13 = No School and No School on Monday 2/16

Reading = Inference is our focus, but now we are going to incorporate visualization as well.  We will be wrapping up our comprehension by comprehension by going beyond the text A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman by David Adler.  Then we will read one of my favorite books for visualization entitled Hurricane by David Wiesner.  Along with our whole group focus, we will continue to use all of our reading strategies in small group and independent work.

Writing = Our Adventure/Imagined Narrative Ideas are underway.  This week we will continue to brainstorm and look at sample writing.  Along with that we will think about our characters' dialogue finding voice in our pieces as well as our clear sequence of events.

Math = We have been exploring fractions this past week in Chapter 8.  This upcoming week, we will continue with fraction thinking more about comparing and ordering them.  We will also look at mixed fractions and improper fractions towards the end of the week.  Check out the pictures below to see the manipulatives we have been working with in class.

Spelling = Please look for the new words coming home on Monday and we will be testing on Thursday because it is a short week.

Content = Social Studies - We will begin our unit on Famous Missourians.  We will begin to look at ones that are provided for us in our textbook as well as begin to create a list of others and why they were important.

Highlights of the Week