Dear Parents,

Remember that this week there will be no school on Wednesday, November 11<sup>th</sup>.  It is Veteran’s Day.  My grandmother has passed away, and I will be attending funeral services on Thursday and Friday this week.  As a result, I will be extending the deadline for the Science Fair component, “Review Of Literature”, till Monday, November 16.  This means that your child will have an additional weekend to complete his/her paper.  If your child completes the paper earlier, they may turn it into my mailbox.

<strong>Reading</strong><strong>: </strong>This week during Reader’s Workshop, students will be responsible for completing their letters to me about the book they are reading in their Reader’s journal.  Students will be assigned a new AR reading goal this week.   We will continue to read <span style="text-decoration: underline">Maniac Magee,</span> by Jerry Spinelli, as a class.  In addition, students are continuing their work in reading groups.  Students will be working on prediction and refining predictions, as well as observing text features.

<strong>Writing: </strong>Students will be developing new writing seeds this week, as well as beginning a new group project titled:   “Make A Menu”.  In this project, students will be studying descriptive adjectives and how they apply to food.  If you have any take-out menus, will you please send them to school with your child on Tuesday?

<strong>Math: </strong>Homework:<strong> </strong>Study Links 2.8, 2.9, 2.10 and Unit Review.  Students will review on Friday and the unit test will be next Monday.

<strong>Science: </strong>Students should be completing their Review Of Literature this week.  I have sent home examples of APA formatting, as well as an example of a Review Of Literature paper.  Please use these resources to help you and your child.  In class, we will review how to keep a science notebook observation, as well as construct waterclocks in our next investigation of measuring time.  Ms. Garcia will be hosting a Science Fair workshop for parents and students on Wednesday, November 18, from 10-11:30 am.  If you are interested, please sign up outside of room 309.  A parent must be present with the student.

<strong>Social Studies: </strong>We will continue reading about the early explorers to the New World this week.  Students will complete their Native American dolls and dwellings this week.<strong> Groups will present their Doll and Dwelling project next Monday to the class.
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<strong>Spelling: Students should study the spelling list of words attached to this overview nightly.  This week’s spelling test will be Friday.</strong>