Brrr! It's cold outside. I'm glad we chose to have our Open House last week with the anticipated storm arriving this week. Thank you all for coming. We hope you enjoyed hearing, seeing, and reading all about the rain forest.
This week we will begin transitioning to our engineering unit. Students will have the opportunity to learn about environmental disasters and how scientists respond to them. The unit will invite students to design and test methods to clean-up an oil spill.
In reading we will work on reading short articles (fiction and nonfiction) and responding to those articles. This will include answering comprehension questions, comparing and contrasting texts, and writing responses. All this work will help prepare the students for the SBAC assessments that will begin in April.
Our next writing unit will be focused around opinion writing. Students will learn to make a claim and support their claim with evidence. After practicing several pieces students will have the opportunity to chose a topic of their choice to take through the writing process and publish. We look forward to sharing those with you.
Finally, we are wrapping up unit 4 with a focus on fractions. Students will explore unit fractions, equivalent fractions, and begin adding and subtracting fractions.
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