Literacy
Students will continue to read Nonfiction Texts and work on a genre of their choice for their independent reading. In the middle of the month we will introduce Fantasy and immerse ourselves in reading this genre so that we can better write Fantasy next month.
In Writer’s Workshop, children will continue their work on Essays. Children are challenging themselves to write Essays that require content knowledge. Some have been incorporating the reading they've been doing in Social Studies in the writing they are doing!
In Word Study/ Grammar, we will focus on writing paragraphs with topic sentences and supporting evidence. We will continue our spelling work with -er, double consonants and other spelling patterns.
Math
We will work with decimals and metric measurements. Decimals present a challenge to most children as they shift from whole numbers to numbers that show parts of a unit. Whenever there is a chance, please point out how decimals appear in our world (money, measurements, small containers, etc) .
Social Studies
We will continue our study of Europeans, Africans and Native Americans during Colonial America. We will work on a explorers till we take our trip to the Museum of the City of New York. Then we will learn about some of the early establishments in New Amsterdam and determine the reasons people came to settle in this New World.
