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Makeup/Retake Pictures: What We’re Learning:
Makeup/retake pictures are Reading Workshop: This week, we will continue our next core literature
scheduled for Thursday, November booked called Island of the Blue Dolphins. This book connects perfectly to
4th. This day is for students that our social studies curriculum. It is based on a true story about a 12 year
missed pictures on October 7th or old girl called Karana who is stranded on an island and has to work out how
wish to retake their photo. If you to survive. Her main enemies on the island are the wild dogs and she lives in
fear of the Aleuts (a tribe who arrive on the island to hunt seals).
are retaking your photo the second
Writing Workshop: This week we will start our Boxes and Bullets unit:
photo will replace the first image.
Personal and Persuasive Essays. This unit is designed to help students with
Images are on-line and if you need the difficult and exhilarating work of learning to write well within an
assistance or need your student’s expository structure.
access key please contact JW Math: Chapter 4- We will explore various strategies for division and spend
Photography directly – time focusing on ways to interpret remainders..
karen@jwpartypictures.com or 310- Science: Students will explore the Ring of Fire and learn that 75 percent of
640-7212. Note: current picture the world's volcanoes are located here, many underwater. This area is also
prices are discounted and that ends a hub of seismic activity, or earthquakes. Ninety percent of earthquakes
on 11/17/21. occur in this zone.
Social Studies: This week, we will begin our unit on the First Californian's and
Halloween: CA's Ancient Past. Students will learn how the first people got to California
We has so much fun at our and what their lives were like, exploring how life differed from region to
Halloween parade today! The kids region.
looked adorable!
Mark Your Calendars:
Xtra Math ü November 4th- Makeup Picture Day
It is highly recommended that your
child is completing a daily session of
ü November 11th- Veteran’s Day; No School
Xtra math. The session takes ü 11/12-11/19- Pacific Book Fair
approximately 3-5 minutes. This ü 11/22-11/26- Thanksgiving Break
should help your child with
memorization of facts, which is a Words Their Way Wordly Wise
skill that is necessary for the level
of math we are doing. We are Sort 11: Lesson 6:
getting ready to begin long division Keep
with remainders. Your child can login Applaud
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to XTRA math through their Clever
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