A few reminders, updates and important dates.
1. There is no RRJ due on Monday, however, your child has a text features HW sheet that is due on Wednesday the 14th. You will be getting some information about Biblionasium soon. We will begin to use this site instead of the RRJ's!
2. We will be practicing for Georgia Milestones on Tuesday the 13th.
3. You can learn more about GA Milestones, Compass Learning, and the plan for the remainder of the year at our Curriculum Night on Thursday January 15th. PLEASE TRY TO JOIN US!
4. Don't forget to send your child to school on Monday with a packed lunch for our field trip unless you have already ordered a school lunch.
5. Please begin or continue to utilize Compass Learning weekly. I'd like to see at least an hour of login time each week in math and reading combined. Let me know if you have questions about this!
Important Dates
January 12th: Tellus Museum Field Trip
January 14th: Class Pictures
January 15th: Curriculum Night 6-7pm
January 19th: MLK Day No School
February 16-20 Winter Break
Here's what we will focus on for the next few weeks.
Reading: Non-fiction text structures. Your children are learning about how authors craft paragraphs using text structure to teach readers. The structures we are learning are: descriptive, cause and effect, problem/solution, compare/contrast, sequential, and chronological.
Math: Area & Perimeter, Geometry We started area and perimeter over the break and we are finishing up this week before we move on to Geometry. Your child should now understand the perimeter is the measurement all the way around or the sum of all sides. In addition, he/she has learned that area is the amount of space that something occupies or takes up and that it is calculated using an array.
Science: Rocks, Minerals & Soil......then Fossils We are finishing up learning about the attributes of rocks and minerals and will take a look at soil as well as weathering and erosion. We are visiting the Tellus Museum on Monday for a mini course on Fossils and we will tie it all together by the end of this month.
Social Studies: FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary McLeod Bethune, Cesar Chavez, and Lyndon B. Johnson We still have 5 more historical figures to learn about..so we will be incorporating their biographies into our reading and social studies block over the course of the next few months.
Writing: Information Booklets Your child is in the process of writing an information book about a topic they feel they have expertise. We're working hard and you will get to see the booklets soon.
****You may notice a multiplication chart in your child's blue folder. It is a data tool for the kids to keep track of their progress with fact fluency.
Lastly, here are some photos of our indoor recess today and the rest are from the trip we took to Portugal over the break.
We went to Lisbon, Sintra, Cascais, Cabo de Roca, Pinhao (wine country on the Douro River), Tomar, Porto and Nazarre. We stayed in the major cities and on the Douro and stopped in the smaller towns for a walk and some lunch. It was breathtaking and super relaxing. Being able to travel has been the best education for me. If you can travel with your children, do it! :)
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