Week of October 20

Reading:  This week we will kick off our “Tread Lightly” PBL! Be looking for a note home about this PBL. We will start with discussing why we love Earth, then go into the topic of deforestation, focusing on nonfiction text features while we read War of the Woods.

Writing/Language:   We will finish talking about fragments, complete sentences, run-on sentences, and compound sentences.  We will begin an argumentative paragraph defending the side of environmentalists or loggers in the debate of deforestation!

Math: We will continue to practice our basic multiplication facts and be discussing strategies to multiply large numbers: traditional, lattice, window, and expanded.

Science/Social Studies: In science we’ll continue our animal unit with animal senses and inherited/instinctive behaviors. In social studies we will continue our colony unit by discussing early English colonies and the Original 13 English colonies!     Anchor Down these Assessments/Due Dates We will have a science test on physical characteristics, instincts, and learned behaviors on THURSDAY. SS Colonies test- NEXT week 100 Book Challenge Goals: Good- 110 steps Better- 200 steps Captain of the Week:            Our Captain of the Week is Edward Reznichenko!! Edward always participates           in class and he is an excellent student! He displays the character traits of:           respect, curiosity, cooperation, creativity, and responsibility.  To find out what Edward learns throughout this week, follow us on Twitter @glay_jessica Reminders from the Marina: -Parent-Teacher conferences will be held THIS WEEK! -Book Fair- Thursday, October 23rd  -NO SCHOOL- October 24th!!!!        The Subway Challenge is this week- we will be recording how many students each fruits &                      vegetables, drink water, and go for a walk each day. Help me encourage your child to stay healthy!!   The Fall Festival will be Oct. 23rd! Please send in items or $ for our hunting/fishing/camo basket! Thank you!! J