Reader’s Workshop will feature a Nonfiction study during which we will use text features to help us read informational texts. Finding main ideas and supporting evidence, making generalizations and determining important information are among the goals of this unit. Students will use simple research skills.
In Writer’s Workshop, we will begin Essays by learning how to write about personal ideas and about themes we find in the stories we read. Our goal is to state a clear thesis and practice ways to support our thinking. We will use a five paragraph essay structure, with emphasis on how to write a paragraph with a topic sentence and supporting sentences.
In Word Study/ Grammar,we are looking at the s and f sounds. Also we will continue our spelling work with spelling patterns. We are focusing on the -le and -er endings, and the vowel -consonant patterns from words with long vowel sounds and short vowel sounds. We will also work on identifying adjectives.
In Math, we will begin our work with multiplication facts, and number sentences. We will also work with decimals and place value. As an extension of our work with decimal concepts, children will work with metric measurements. If time permits, we will also review addition and subtraction strategies with decimal values and explore order of operations in number sentences.
In Social Studies, we will finish up our work with the Native Americans of New York, leading to the next unit on the interaction between the Europeans, Africans and Native Americans in Colonial New York.
