We are almost done with our first trimester and I cannot believe how the time has passed! Here’s a little insight into what we’ve been up to the past couple of weeks and what’s to come, but first some reminders…
Reminders:
November 22 – Grades are due. Anything handed to me after the 22nd will not be counted in the final grade.
November 26 – 11am dismissal. Parent Teacher Conferences! Sign up to get the time slot you want.
November 27-29 – Thanksgiving Break. Have a beautiful holiday.
Please return permission slips to watch PG movies.
What we’ve covered and what we will cover:
English Language Arts: We wrapped up our unit on vowel pairs, diphthongs, vowel digraphs, and syllables. This class LOVES round robin stories, so we incorporate that as much as we can using our vocabulary words. The next few weeks, we will focus more on vocabulary words, meanings, and spellings.
Science: Mr. Freeze from Fermilab visited us on Thursday the 14th! The presentation was all about cryogenics and phase changes, which is perfect because WE LEARNED ABOUT THIS IN SCIENCE!!! After the demonstration, we talked about how the particles expand when the nitrogen changes from liquid to a gas. We’re about to wrap up this Unit on Matter and move on to Energy and Matter in Organisms, starting with how plants use energy first.
Social Studies: Our recent lessons on the early European Explorers such as Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, and Ferdinand Magellan has wrapped up wrapped up, and we will move on to learning about the beginnings of our country!
Reading: In every subject, we practice active reading skills and work on finding the main idea of an article or paragraph and point out supporting details. This skill is crucial to just about every subject! As a class, we are working on improving our comprehension skills with articles and i-Ready packets. Our last book report presentations were on Realistic Fiction and our upcoming book reports are on Historical Fiction, Autobiographical, or Biographical books. This report will be our last independent book report before the new year. In the new year, we will start reading books in groups.
Religion: In our last lesson we learned about the first Sacrament of Initiation, Baptism. We are just about to wrap up our lesson on Confirmation and the importance of this sacrament. Although we still have a few years until we get confirmed, it’s a wonderful idea to start thinking about the reasons to get confirmed!