What we're learning this week...

In Reader’s Workshop, we are continuing our unit on building strong communities. We are currently learning about leaders. We have discussed different ways that people become leaders and what it means to be a leader in one’s community. Our weekly question was “what are the qualities of a good leader?” We read the story Mama Miti, analyzed the lyrics of We’ve Got the Whole World in our Hands, and discussed slides about local leaders in our community.As we read a variety of texts, students worked on answering key questions using details from the text to support their answers.  Next week we will introduce our culminating project. Students will think about how they can create more access to books in their communities.

In word study, we have been working on identifying and reading words that begin with consonant clusters. This week we worked with s consonant clusters and next week we will work with l consonant clusters.  We’ve also been learning about nouns, proper nouns and adjectives.

This week’s weekly words: support, movement, environment, quality, decision and democracy

Next week’s weekly words: resource, budge, improve, access, impact, librarian

In Writer’s Workshop, we are continuing to work on writing personal narratives.  Students brainstormed story ideas from their lives and selected one to write about. Students have been working on writing interesting beginnings, adding details and using temporal words to signal new parts of their stories.

In math, students continue to work on solving story problems. We have been focusing on subtraction and learning efficient strategies for solving subtraction story problems. Students have been working hard on recording their work in a way that matches their thinking. Next week we will wrap up our first math unit and start a new unit on 2-D shapes.

In Science, we have been studying weather. We have been exploring temperature and thinking about what makes temperature change throughout the day and from season to season.

3 Questions to ask your student!

-       What is your personal narrative about?

-       Who are some of the leaders you learned about? What makes them good leaders?

-       At what time of day is the temperature warmest?  

Explore this website about temperature with your child!

https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/ma/boston/KB

OS/date/2019-5-13