Friday, Sept. 30th

Mrs.Alvarado’s Class News Friday, Sept.30th Dear Parents, We had so much fun listening to all of the independent reading projects! Sounds like the class picked really good books to read this month! A new reading project sheet will come home next week! Take a look at what we are learning: Reading- We finished Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing this week. Next week we will be reading mysteries in the book Encyclopedia Brown. Each chapter in the book is a mini-mystery. Our focus lessons will be sequencing, comprehension, vocabulary, and skimming for information. Social Studies- We are knee deep in the early explorers! This week we learned about DaGama, Dias, Magellan, Columbus, and Balboa! Next week we will continue to learn about more discoveries and the men that discovered them! We will be working on a research paper in the media center on Thursday and Friday. Each student will be assigned an explorer to research. Math- We have been working on expressions this week. Next week we will be working on patterns on Monday. Then we will begin reviewing Chapter 6 for a test on Wednesday. Thursday we will begin Chapter 7. Chapter 7 teaches multiplying two digit numbers by one digit. Spelling- Sort 8 – r-influenced a in accented syllables. Writer’s Workshop- I am going to use writer’s workshop time to write about the explorers! I have so many great activities for the explorer unit I can’t fit them all in during Social Studies time! Grammar- We are beginning a unit on pronouns. Have a great fall weekend! Mrs.Alvarado