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Whats Happening in Room 170 for the Week of 9/18/17

From Mrs. Schaller: Here are this weeks curriculum notes. I hope everyone has a
wonderful week!

p Writers THIS WEEK:

Readers Workshop
Workshop Mon 9/18
This week we will continue to focus on inferring Day 2
character traits. Students will complete a quick Today students completed the WCASD fall Tues 9/19 - PE, sneakers!
check-in this week. Narrative writing prompt. We will use this Day 3
We will spend the rest of the month reading Fish in a to help drive instruction during our upcoming Wed 9/20 -Library books!
Tree as a whole class read aloud, with a strong narrative unit. Day 4
emphasis on character traits. Students will explore
Thurs 9/21 - No School
various character traits that can be inferred As we continue our descriptive writing mini-
through feelings, actions, dialogue, and thoughts. unit this week we will connect to our Fri 9/22
During independent reading students will continue to character trait study in readers workshop.
apply this skill as they read their own fiction books. Day 1
Students will apply what they have learned
As your child reads each night, encourage a discussion
about character traits! They should be able to
in mini-lessons about showing vs. telling and UPCOMING
sensory details as they write character
identify character traits and provide you with details
sketches focusing on physical traits and
DATES:
from the text that support their thinking!
character (personality) traits. We will then 9/25- Stroud Form/$ due
Learning Target(s): begin to work with descriptive writing that
I can infer character traits in a text based focuses on setting. 9/26- Scholastic due online
on a characters feelings, actions, dialogue, - Science Explorers
and thoughts. Learning Target(s): Assembly
I can write a complete sentence
with capitals and punctuation. 9/28- Picture Day
I can add sensory details to my
writing. 9/29- Hopewell Form/$ due
I can use similes to help my reader - Color FUND Run
visualize details.
10/4- 4th Grade Trip to Stroud
4+6=10 Mathematics
10/12- 4th Grade Trip to
Today we are diving into Chapter Two, Estimation and Hopewell/ French Creek

BdSci./S.S.JV
Number Theory. The practice pages are now on our class
website homework page, if you would like to follow along at
home. As you will see, we will be working with factors and
multiples when we begin lesson 2.2 next week. This is why it is
This week we are working in our first social
crucial that your child is fluent with his/her facts. As we
work with greatest common factor, and least common studies unit- PA Geography and Map Skills.
multiple, students must be able to quickly recall their Students will begin in the textbook learning
multiplication and division tables. Please be sure to work on about their place in the world as we explore
Specials
them on a daily basis. I am sending home copies of their absolute vs. relative location. Then we will Schedule
most recent fluency assessments in todays Monday Folder move into hands on activities with maps and
so you can see where they are. If they are scoring under Day 1- Art Day 2-
globes from our Nystrom cart for the Music
45/50, daily practice is a must!
remainder of the week. Miss. Sweeney will
Learning Target(s): facilitate the majority of these lessons,
I can round numbers to estimate sums and however I will jump in and co-teach as needed!
differences (2.1- Mon-Fri)
Day 3- PE Day 4-
I can estimate to check that an answer is Learning Target(s): Library
reasonable (2.1- Mon-Fri)
I can interpret political and physical
I can decide whether an estimate or exact answer
maps, locate places/features by
is needed. (2.1- Mon-Fri)
using legends, keys, latitude,
longitudes, the compass rose, map
.
scale and grids.

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