Here's a peek of what's ahead:
Reading:
* working on increasing our independent reading stamina
* keeping track of our reading at school
* brainstorming meaningful stop and jot starters
* Working with small groups to discuss, question, and write about shared mentor texts
*Current unit of study: Nonfiction
-Learning about these types of pieces as well as the elements they include
-text structures and text features: how are nonfiction texts organized?
Writing:
* working on increasing our independent writing stamina
* responding to both specific writing prompts and "free choice" writings in order to develop a closer relationship with Mrs. C that can grow over time:)
*Current unit of study: Nonfiction
-focusing on note-taking skills
-transferring notes to well written factual summaries
-practicing writing in specific structures (description, compare/contrast, problem/solution, cause/effect)
-including text features in our writing to further inform, teach, show, explain, and organize our writing
Math: Unit 4
*extended multiplication facts
*making reasonable estimates for products
*partitioning rectangles
*converting liquid measures
*partial-products multiplication
*metric units of mass
*money number stories
*area models for rectangles and rectilinear figures
*multistep multiplication number stories
*lattice multiplication
*traditional multiplication
Link to my Google Classroom Math that has most of the lessons we do in class:)
Science
* Our class will be beginning a unit in Structure and Function.
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