Week of January 15-19

Hello Families,

It's crazy to think our school year is almost half over!! As we are getting to the halfway mark, that means we have some testing coming up. Next week, students will take the MAP test again for Reading and Math. We also will be taking a World Map test. Let me know if your child is feeling anxious over any of these tests and we'll work to help alleviate that.

Reminders/Updates

• Monday will be Day 3.
• Pink confirmation forms were sent home. Please fill them out and return them with your child!
• Yearbook forms were sent home last week. The forms are due back January 19th if you are interested in ordering. 

Don't forget...January is a big month for our school!  There are many informational events taking place to help others learn more about New Directions.  Please share these dates with anyone you think may be interested in learning more about what a great place New Directions is for students to learn and grow!

Thursday, January 11th-5:30 PM District-Wide Info Session held at Tanner Early Learning Center
Tuesday, January 16th-6:00 -7:00 PM Info Session at New Directions
Monday, January 22nd-10:00 AM-1:00 PM Open House for prospective families at New Directions
Thursday, February 1st-6:00-7:00 PM-Info Session at New Directions


Families can also call Mrs. Frischmann at 766-6116 to set up individual tours.

Upcoming Events

January 15: Reading MAP test for students

January 16: NDLC Parent Info Session 6-7
January 17: Math MAP test for students

January 19: Students dismissed at 11:30
January 19: World Map Test for students

January 22: NO SCHOOL

January 23-26 Celebrate NDLC Week

February 1: NDLC Parent Info Session 6-7

Curriculum Update

Math: This week we practiced 3-digit addition using different methods and began 3-digit subtraction. Before we introduce the numerical methods (what most adults use), it is helpful for students to see what is happening in place value drawings. Then, they can connect what they did in their drawings to how it looks when we add or subtract numerically. Next week, we will practice what we have learned so far by discussing different methods of subtraction and relating subtraction and addition together. What we work on in class is most likely different than how you remember adding and subtracting! Encourage your child to explain to you what they're doing. As always, feel free to contact me as well if you're having a hard time understanding! :)

Writing: We started our next unit, Baby Literary Essays. For the first bend of this unit, we will be writing multiple essays on the same book, Those Shoes. In our literary essays, we need to have a claim and support that claim with evidence from the text. This strongly relates to what students will be asked to do on the Forward exam. Students have enjoyed typing their essays! It is something fun and just a little bit of a change of pace. Next week, students will be able to choose a text that they will write essays about as they gain more independence in writing literary essays.

Word Study: This week we practiced breaking apart words into its syllables. This is helpful for students in both reading and writing--to correctly read or spell a word with multiple syllables. Next week, we will add our trick words: always, often, and once, and continue practicing with syllables. 

Reading: This past week we talked about how to find character/people's traits. We know we can pay attention to what characters/people say or do and that can tell us a lot about a person! We also learned to look for evidence in the book when we say a character is a certain way. The more evidence we have, the stronger the theory! Book clubs are going so well! I am so impressed with the conversations these students are all having. The students are prepared with thoughtful ideas to share with their groups. I think the kids are leaving their club meetings feeling satisfied and wanting to read MORE! This coming week we will we continuing to look at characters and make predictions about what they will do based on how they act. We will also study secondary characters because we know that these people are important and sometimes extremely influential to the main character.

Content: Students were busy researching their country this week in online databases and in books. Mrs. Wolf even came in to teach us about Google Slides! Feel free to have your child play around with this at home--students find it fun making slideshows! Next week, we will present and watch each other's slideshows. I know presenting can be terrifying for some students--if your child is feeling that way, let me know and we can work thought it! We will also take this Unit's test on Friday: students will get a blank map and will fill in continents, oceans, and the main rivers and mountains in the United States. This is everything we have covered in class! I sent home a blank map if students want to practice at home (the test will be VERY similar.)

Know that you can always contact me with any questions or concerns. Have a wonderful weekend!

Best,

Jenny

January 8 - 12

Hello Families,

It's good to be back! I enjoyed hearing all about winter break and getting back in the swing of things. I have been so impressed at how well students were able to get back into our routines and being even BETTER students than they were in 2017! We have talked about some New Years Resolutions and things we are going to try this year to be a more respectful, responsible, and caring student and friend. Feel free to continue these conversations at home with your child.

Reminders/Updates

• Monday will be Day 4.
• Yearbook forms were sent home this week. The forms are due back January 19th if you are interested in ordering. 
• Our post-it supply is getting low. If you are willing and able to donate some standard sized post-its to our classroom, it would be greatly appreciated! :)
• If your child brought their yoga mat towel home last time to get it washed, please bring it back! We will have yoga next week. 
• Don't forget to check out Seesaw! This week I uploaded a video and some pictures of students from our Writing Celebration. 

Upcoming Events

December 22-January 1: NO SCHOOL Winter Break! :)

January 16: NDLC Parent Info Session 6-7

January 19: Students dismissed at 11:30

January 22: NO SCHOOL

January 23-26 Celebrate NDLC Week

January 23: Game Wear Day (characters, twister, Mario, etc.)

January 23: Family Night: Art Night

January 24: Backwards Wear Day

January 25: Active Wear

January 25: Jump Rope For Heart 6:00

January 26: Camping Wear Day

February 1: NDLC Parent Info Session 6-7

Curriculum Update

Math: We discussed estimating and rounding to the nearest hundred and ten. This is such a useful skill for students to have! Talk to your child about when you use estimation or rounding in your life. Next week, we will work through different methods for adding and subtracting three digit numbers. I encourage students to try out the different methods, but they can choose whichever one makes the most sense to them. These methods might be (probably are) different than what you're used to! Instead of "carrying the one," students will move the "group" to the correct place value. These "groups" can be above the numbers (what is familiar to us when we "carry the one") or below the numbers. I have attached a few pictures that might help. Encourage your child to teach it to you--asking questions as you have them! If you are still having difficulty understanding, you are always welcome to contact me :) 

Writing: We used this week to publish our information books! We celebrated all that we have learned by teaching our book. As this unit comes to an end, that means another unit begins! We will start our next unit, Baby Literary Essays, on Monday. Our goal for this unit is to write an essay that states a strong opinion about a piece of literature and support it with evidence from the text. We will begin by flash drafting multiple essays about the same text. We will make our evidence even stronger by lifting lines from the text and using evidence from the beginning, middle, and end. This unit will also be special in that we will be typing these essays instead of hand writing them! We chose to do this for a couple of reasons: students need practice typing, students are required to type their responses on the state tests, and it's something different that I think students will enjoy! :)

Word Study: This week we practiced breaking apart words into its syllables. This is helpful for students in both reading and writing--to correctly read or spell a word with multiple syllables. We will continue practicing this into next week. Our new trick words for this week are: against, knew, and know. A word study pack will come be coming home Monday. 

Reading: This past week we did a few assessments since we are transitioning into a new unit. We also got our FIRST book clubs of the year! This is SO exciting! Students are in groups of 3,4,or 5 and they will all be reading the same book. As a club they will decide how much they will be reading at school each day AND how much they will need to read as homework. They will be the "bosses" and it is impressive the wonderful expectations they set for themselves. Monday we will start our Character Study unit. We will be looking deeply at characters and figure out their traits and WHY they act the way they do. Our read aloud we started is Because of Winn Dixie! This is one of my favorites and I am sure the students will love it!

Content: Students were able to choose a continent they would like to study in depth and started this investigations into a country in that continent this week. Ask your student which country they're learning about and what they have learned so far! We will be making presentations and sharing them with the class. Feel free to work on this at home as well if your child is interested!



Know that you can always contact me with any questions or concerns. Have a wonderful weekend!

Best,
Jenny

Happy Holidays!

Hi Families,

Happy Holidays to you all! I hope you enjoy this winter break and are able to spend some extra time with your loved ones. It's hard to believe that 2017 is coming to a close and 2018 will soon be upon us!

  

  

  

  

 

 

Reminders/Updates

• Monday will be Day 6.
• Think your student is going to get a little bored this winter break? Feel free to direct them to these resources to relieve their boredom!
• Typing Club: They can go to feldkamp.typingclub.com and enter in their username and password (Their username does NOT include the @kaukaunasd.org. Their password is their 8-digit birth date.) Remind them that they can only move on to the next level if they get 5 stars!
• Math Games: Students can go to Think Central by clicking on the link or through Google Classroom. Their username does not include @kaukaunasd.org. Their password is their 6 digit birth date. They can go to "My Library" and click on "Math Activity Center G3 Student." After clicking on the "Games" box, students can select a game to play. The "Operations" game is most relevant, but they can play any one!
• Side note: there are more resources on Think Central for your student as well. You have access to homework pages for any lesson in each unit. Any app with "G3" in the Library means Grade 3. Feel free to see what's all there!
• Read a holiday book! Maybe one they got from their teacher :)

Upcoming Events

December 22-January 1: NO SCHOOL Winter Break! :)
January 16: NDLC Parent Info Session 6-7
January 19: Students dismissed at 11:30
January 22: NO SCHOOL
January 23-26 Celebrate NDLC Week
January 23: Game Day (characters, twister, Mario, etc.)
January 23: Family Night
January 24: Backwards Wear Day
January 25: Active Wear
January 25: Gym Night
January 26: Camping Day
February 1: NDLC Parent Info Session 6-7

Curriculum Update

Math: We have been working on solving some Santa and gumdrop-themed story problems! We reviewed two-step story problems and practiced word problems with place value drawings. Even though we're not in our multiplication unit anymore, we will continue to practice our math facts. You can help your student with this at home by practicing their math facts or count by's (3's, 4's, 6's, 7's, 8's, or 9's count bys.) When we get back from break, we'll introduce rounding to the nearest hundred and ten. This is such a useful skill for students to have to estimate and decide on reasonableness of an answer. After that, we'll dive into different strategies for adding three-digit numbers. 

Writing: Our writers have been working to finish up their information books by revising and editing. Students used their checklists to find things they can work on, like adding facts, observations, details, AND definitions! We also selected text features that made sense to add to our books. In the first week of January, we will publish our books so they can be read by many! We'll celebrate by teaching one another about our topic. 

Word Study: We spent some time going over the difference between they're, there, and their and made sentences with each one. When we come back from break, we'll start our next unit, Unit 5, by reviewing some more vowel teams and our trick words: knew, know, and against. 

Reading: This past week we started looking at narrative nonfiction. We were reading biographies and we even realized that narrative nonfiction doesn't have to be about a person. It can be about a thing. For example, we read the book Cactus Hotel! Ask your child all about it! :) We even had our end of the unit celebration! Students wrote something they do a great job with in nonfiction reading and wrote a goal that they still have. When our next nonfiction unit begins we will look at these again! When we come back from break we will take our post-unit assessment and start looking at our next unit! We won't officially begin our next reading unit until the following week. Our next unit we will be studying characters!

Content: After learning a little more about the world and our continents, students will be choosing a continent that they want to learn more about! Students will research a continent to find out more about that continent's climate, culture, and more! We will then share our knowledge through Google Slides to present on all that was learned about the continent.



Know that you can always contact me with any questions or concerns. Have a wonderful weekend!

Best,
Jenny

Week of December 18-22

Hello Families,

I can tell students are getting ready for the holidays and winter break...especially with our first substantial snow fall! We also have had Jingle Bell Rock on repeat to help us with our song that we'll sing on Thursday for our school sing off. If you'd like to practice with your child at home, feel free! I have our lyrics below :)


Tune of Jingle Bell Rock
NDLC, NDLC
NDLC rocks!
We like to read
and we like to write.
Solving and marking
up math papers of fun
Now the real fun
has begun

NDLC, NDLC
NDLC rocks
We like to play
and we like to learn.
Walking in silence
in NDLC halls
Where we go on our way

What a fun time
in our school day
to learn all day long.
NDLC time
is a swell time
to go learning
in all sorts of cool ways!

Bring your books and dive in your
stories galore.

Reminders/Updates

• Monday will be Day 2.
• To go along with our Pajama Day on Thursday, we will be watching a movie with all of NDLC third grade. We will be watching Finding Dory, which is rated PG. Please let me know if you have any concerns about the movie's rating and we will make arrangements. 

Upcoming Events

December 21: Pajama Day
December 22-January 1: NO SCHOOL Winter Break! :)

Curriculum Update

Math: We started Unit 3! Students seem to be more comfortable in this unit so far since it is not such a new concept as multiplication and division were. So far we have looked at place value drawings for numbers and writing numbers in expanded form. For example, 328 can be written in expanded form as 300+20+8 or 3 hundreds + 2 tens + 8 ones. This helps students to see what each digit in a number actually represents. Next week, we will put our story problem skills to work with place value word problems. We will also discuss rounding to the nearest hundred and ten, which can be a challenging concept for students. However, this is such a useful skill for students to have to estimate and decide on reasonableness of an answer. 
*If your student (or you!) are still struggling with the concept of division, please feel free to check out my post "What Does Division Mean?" 

Writing: Students have been working to sound like the expert that they are in their information writing by including vocabulary, definitions, and text boxes. We also added in interesting introductions and conclusions to hook our readers. As we are getting closer to the end of this information unit, we will be editing our writing as well as looking at checklists to decide what we need to do to make our writing EVEN better! After all, our class motto is, "I can make this better, but how?" Our third and fourth grade writing checklists will help us to answer that question of "how?"

Word Study: This week we practiced writing words with suffixes...and even challenged one another to see just how many words we could make with suffixes! We finished up this unit by taking the test; look for the tests to come home early next week. 

Reading: This past week we thought a lot about author's perspective in nonfiction texts. We learned that we can look for the punctuation, pictures, and word choice the author uses to help us think of what the author truly thinks about the topic. This coming we will wrap up our nonfiction unit! We will be looking at a different type of nonfiction, narrative nonfiction. This is when a nonfiction book is written as a story. Often times biographies are good examples of this type of genre. Friday we will have our celebration and discuss everything we have learned and write goals for what we would like to accomplish when we come back to nonfiction later in the year! :)

*Scholastic book orders were submitted this past Wednesday. I am hoping they will be in by Thursday! Please let me know if you would like this to be a surprise for your child (if you haven't already).

Content: Students have been growing their knowledge of the world through closely examining maps, statistics, video, images, models, and articles. We will continue with our centers next week so each group has a chance to learn through reading, watching a video, comparing a map to a globe, and more. I have been posting pictures of groups as they complete their model of the world on Seesaw!



Know that you can always contact me with any questions or concerns. Have a wonderful weekend!

Best,
Jenny

What Does Division Mean?

Division can be tricky! What does it mean, anyway? 

A division equation can be read two ways: either dividing a total amount into a certain number of groups, or dividing a total amount into groups of a certain size. 

Here are some division strategies that we have practiced in class:

And here are some strategies that our students use: 

Week of December 11-15

Hello Families,

This week we started doing announcements for the school. Some students were nervous (and understandably so!), but I could see they all felt a huge sense of pride after they were finished! If your child feels anxious about doing the announcements, just let me know and I can send home what they'll be saying so they can practice at home.

We talked a lot this week about what a good partner and group member looks like, sounds like, and feels like. I have noticed our talking in partnerships has been much more focused and purposeful! Students have also commented that our turn and talk time feels so much better as well. :)

It was great seeing families for our Pizza, PJ's and Publishing Family Night! Our students...I mean YouTubers...got a chance to teach their viewers what they've been writing about and leave some compliments for their classmates.

Reminders/Updates

• Monday will be Day 4.
• As it starts to get chilly and snowy outside, please remind your child that they need to have their winter gear of hats, mittens, snow pants, and boots!
• Half birthdays are starting to come up for those students with summer birthdays. We do celebrate half birthdays! If your child's birthday is during the summer months, feel free to bring in a half birthday snack if you'd like. 

Upcoming Events

December 12: NO SCHOOL
December 13: Holiday Wear
December 21: Pajama Day
December 22-January 1: NO SCHOOL Winter Break! :)

Curriculum Update

Math: We finished up Unit 2 this week and took the Unit 2 test. Next week, we will fix up our incorrect answers on our test so we can learn from our mistakes! We'll also begin Unit 3, which focuses on place value, rounding, and addition and subtraction of three-digit numbers. We will work to understand place value next week by making drawings of numbers (representing ones, tens, and hundreds), identifying each digit, and understanding place value in word problems. A letter should be going home today with your student explaining more about the kind of work they will be doing in Unit 3 so families can understand this too! :)

Writing: Students were excited to see how many compliments they got on their writing after Family Night! We have been working hard to elaborate on our information writing by adding ideas and facts and connecting our paragraphs and chapters by adding transition words. Next week, we will work on our introductions, conclusions, and adding expert words. We will also be spending time with a partner to help understand where our writing gets confusing and what we can do to clear up that confusion.

Word Study: This week we continued to learn more about suffixes and practiced building words with suffixes. We also talked about how the suffix -ed can make three different sounds: /d/, /id/, or /t/. Next week, we'll go over some more vowel teams (ou, oo, ue, ew) and practice correctly spelling words as we write them in a sentence. 

Reading: This past week we really dug into note taking the main idea of a chunk and chapter of a book and finding the key details that support that main idea. This is tricky but important work. Students are doing a nice job at trying it out. This next week we are starting to think about the authors purpose and perspective of nonfiction texts. We will also talking about how WE can grow our own ideas when reading nonfiction. Remember students should be reading independently at home in their fiction books. Nonfiction can be extra if they'd like! :)

*Scholastic book orders are due December 13. If you would like a gift for the holidays and want it private please let me know and we can work something out. kabarac@kaukaunasd.org

Content: We completed our world maps by adding in some rivers. We also focused on close reading an article about Australia. Close reading is when we look closely and thoughtfully at a text to find evidence of main ideas and key details to help us understand more about the text, like why the author decided to write it or what ideas we have now. Next week, we will begin our centers where students will work in groups to learn more about the world through maps, modeling, statistics, images, reading, and video.



Know that you can always contact me with any questions or concerns. Have a wonderful weekend!

Best,
Jenny

Week of December 4 - 8

Hello Families,

It's hard to believe it is already December! It was another quick week. I have noticed that I often have to stop myself or a student when sharing because some classmates are talking or not paying attention. We have been talking about how this affects ourselves and others when this happens and ways that we can improve. Feel free to have these conversations with your student at home as well. Sometimes that extra reinforcement helps! Remind your student that they can be (or can continue being!) a role model for our class and our school through their respectful actions and kind words.

Reminders/Updates

• Monday will be Day 6.
• If you haven't yet returned your student's portfolio, you can send it on back so we can fill it with more of their work!
• Some students have a ring of cards attached to their agenda. These are words that I have noticed they have misspelled in their writing that they should know. Students should write these words five times both at school and at home. 
• Your students convinced me (through their opinion writing!) that they should be able to bring in something for share other than pictures. So, for one "round" of shares, they can bring in something to talk about - as long as it can fit in their locker and it is not a pet! :) On Monday we'll figure out who will be sharing this week.
• Half birthdays are starting to come up for those students with summer birthdays. We do celebrate half birthdays! If your child's birthday is during the summer months, feel free to bring in a half birthday snack if you'd like. 

Upcoming Events

December 5: Kaukauna Parade
December 7: Pajama Day
December 7: Family Night: PJ's, Pizza, and Publishing
December 8: NDLC Wear
December 12: NO SCHOOL
December 14: Holiday Wear
December 21: Pajama Day
December 22-January 1: NO SCHOOL

Curriculum Update

Math: We have been working on solving two step problems! Next week, we will continue to work on these types of problems. I sent home a review for students to work on each night for about 10 minutes. If they work through the review, that will help them greatly to be prepared for the test. The test is formatted exactly as the review is! We will go over all that we have learned in Unit 2 (and so far this year!) and take our Unit 2 test at the end of the week. 

You can help you child in math by asking them what math facts (like 5x7 or 2x9) they are working on right now. Have them tell you a strategy they use for solving them. They have about 6 math facts to practice at a time. The more we practice these facts, the more fluent and efficient they will be!

Writing: This week we started our next unit, information writing. We compared teaching things we know a lot about in our writing to YouTubers teaching what they know to their viewers. We also looked at the most effective ways to set up our table of contents for our audience and different ways to structure our writing. Next week we'll work on saying more about each of our facts and writing a lot of books! On Family Night on Thursday, you'll get a chance to see some of your child's writing!

Word Study: This week we learned about suffixes and how they change the meaning of the baseword. I sent home a Word Study packet at the beginning of the week, but it doesn't need to be returned until the end of next week! Next week we'll work on building more words with the suffixes and our trick words: sure, use, and used. 

Reading: This past week we started reading nonfiction books! We are learning that it is very important to take some notes so we can become experts AND teach others what we learn. We learned that we can take these notes by using a boxes and bullets format. The main idea is written in a sentence in the box and the details support it. This is different from second grade because in second-grade students had to write the topic in the box and facts that went with that topic in the bullets. So students are taking the jump to be more organized and get more out of their readings. We will continue to work hard on this. Students are reading mainly nonfiction at school. I'd like students to keep their fiction skills still strong so for homework I would like students to be doing SOME fiction reading. They can also read nonfiction but fiction should be happening. :)

*Scholastic book orders are due December 13. If you would like a gift for the holidays and want it private please let me know and we can work something out. kabarac@kaukaunasd.org

Content: We are continuing to learn all about continents, oceans, and mountain ranges! Next week, we'll learn about some rivers and put them on our maps. Students will start to gain more independence in doing their own learning at different centers that will be set up with maps, pictures, videos, and more!

Here's the link to the continents video/song we watched/sang along to. I apologize in advance if you have been hearing this song on repeat! :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6DSMZ8b3LE




Know that you can always contact me with any questions or concerns. Have a wonderful weekend!

Best,
Jenny

November 27 - December 1

Hello Families,

Since it is a very short school week, the blog is coming a little early! I hope that you have a great Thanksgiving and enjoy spending some extra time with your family. This Thanksgiving, I am so incredibly grateful to have each one of your children in class! I love learning with and from them. I know this is all made possible by the time and effort you put in with your child at home, so thank you for that!

Reminders/Updates

• Monday will be Day 6.
• Some students have a ring of cards attached to their agenda. These are words that I have noticed they have misspelled in their writing that they should know. Students should write these words five times both at school and at home. Because some students have been misspelling these words for a couple years, it takes a lot of practice for our brain to realize the correct way to spell the word. That is why we practice so much! Once we see that they can spell the word correctly in their writing, we'll take it off the ring!
• At home, students can write these words with paper and pencil, markers, fancy pens, "skywrite" with their arm, use a dry erase board, rainbow write with different colors, or any other ideas they come up with!
• Kwik Trip Gift cards Fundraiser -- NDLC earns 5% back on each gift card sold and 10% back on non-fuel purchases made in store with the gift card. Orders are due November 29th and can be picked up at Family Night. 
• Do you ever get frustrated when working with your child on reading? Do you ever wonder why they are making those mistakes? Well, try it out! Below is a simulator on experiencing what a young child goes through when learning to read. Reading is a hard and complicated process! Students need strategies to learn how to tackle the tricky parts.
  https://www.understood.org/en/tools/through-your-childs-eyes
• This is a friendly reminder that your Book Clubs orders are due by 12/13/17 this month. I set the order early in December so the books can hopefully be shipped before winter break! You can place your orders online at scholastic.com/bookclubs using my class activation code: P8W4T or you can write a check from the paper copy.
  
  
  Happy Reading,
  Miss. Kabara
  

Upcoming Events

November 22-24: NO SCHOOL
December 7: Pajama Day
December 7: Family Night
December 8: NDLC Wear
December 12: NO SCHOOL
December 14: Holiday Wear

Curriculum Update

Math: So far in Unit 2 we have finished up the remaining multiplications, meaning we learned to multiply with all factors from 0 to 10. The next part of Unit 2 focuses on problem solving and multiples of 10. Next week, we will work on two-step word problems. These can be challenging as they require multiple steps to solve AND students need to decide which operation to use. We will also multiply with multiples of 10.

Check out some efficient strategies that your students came up with for multiplication and division! :)

Writing: This week we finished our Opinion Unit. I saw students get more interested and engaged in this unit since after all, they do have a lot of opinions to share! We even saw how far we have come since the start of the unit by comparing our first piece of Opinion to our last. Next unit will be information writing. We'll start with our on demand and then brainstorm ideas and understand the structure of information texts. 

Word Study: This week we will learn about suffixes, specifically -s, -es, -ed, -ing, -er, and -est. A new word study packet will go home on Monday for students to practice with during the week. 

Reading: This week we completed our mystery unit! Students did an AMAZING job being real detectives and solving the mystery of "WHO STOLE OUR CHAIRS!?" They now know what it takes to be a great reader-- reading carefully for details (clues) and thinking of the characters (suspects)! This next week we will be beginning our next unti-- Nonfiction reading! We will be reading to learn AND reading to TEACH others! I don't want students regressing all they've done in their fiction reading so about 3/4 of each Reading time I will have students switch to reading a fiction text. They will also most likely be bringing home a fiction book for their reading homework. The big goal of this unit is to get students to figure out the main idea and details of a text. We will be practicing by note-taking using boxes and bullets!

*Scholastic book orders will be sent home when we come back from Thanksgiving!

Content: Students have been loving our world unit! This week we discussed directions and continents. Next week, we'll learn about the oceans, mountain ranges in the United States, and rivers. Feel free to ask your child what they have learned about the world and share what you know too!

Check out some pictures of students exploring the world through different maps, books, a globe, and searching in online databases!

 

Know that you can always contact me with any questions or concerns. Have a wonderful weekend!

Best,
Jenny