<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">Weekly Overview November 23-November 27</span></strong><strong></strong>

This will be a short week as we head into the Thanksgiving weekend.  As a result, we will not have a math quiz this week.  We will, however, have our weekly spelling quiz on Wednesday.  This week’s words will all be contractions.

To parents who were unable to make parent-teacher conferences:  If you have not made arrangements to pick up your child’s report card, I want to remind you that I will not give your child their report card unless I have a written request from you.  This is to ensure that the report card finds its way home and to you.  Thank you.

To all parents:  Thank you for your contributions to the classroom this year.  We are once again running low on Kleenex, paper towel, and hand sanitizer.  All contributions are greatly appreciated.    Happy Thanksgiving to you all.<strong> </strong>

<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 should be reading books to accomplish their AR goal for the quarter.  Students will meet in their Guided Reading groups this week and will complete a vocabulary word assignment.

<strong>Writing: </strong>Students will begin organizing their discovery drafts:  My Secret Place into Graphic organizers to help construct five paragraph expository essays.  We will continue working on our writing project:   “Make A Menu”.  <strong>Monday homework</strong>:  students will write descriptions of food items they have eaten that day.  <strong>Tuesday homework:</strong> students will complete carryout menu graphic organizer.  <strong>Wednesday homework:</strong> students will revise food descriptions from Monday for a final grade.

<strong>Math: </strong><strong>Students will continue to compare and examine data charts this week.  For this unit, students will need a protractor and a compass.  Please make sure students have both to use in class by Monday at the latest. </strong><strong>Homework:</strong><strong> </strong>Study Links 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

<strong>Science: </strong>Students will work in pairs to test a new water clock, record observations, and begin to construct their own water clock experiment.

<strong>Social Studies: </strong><strong>Students will present their Native American Doll and Dwellings this week.  The projects will be displayed outside of our classroom for the next couple weeks.  Please come and see them in their completed states.  They are stunning! </strong><strong>This week we will read about the first explorers from </strong><strong>Portugal</strong><strong> and </strong><strong>Spain</strong><strong>.  As a class we will read the book <span style="text-decoration: underline">Pedro’s Journal</span>.  Students will write their own fictional journal entries and add illustrations to their entries.  These will be bound and made into books </strong><strong> </strong>

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