This Week's News

This week in Language Arts, we will discuss the reading skill of character traits. Using various texts, students will make inferences to think about how to describe characters. As a warm-up to this, students today talked about how to describe their close friends. Students will also be equipped with a character traits word bank. Related to this, our words of the day are character traits. We are working to see how many times we can use these words in a relevant context. Please encourage your child to use these words at home with you.

·         Monday: Arrogant

·         Tuesday: Mischievous

·         Wednesday: Inventive

·         Thursday: Graceful

We are finishing our first book, Shiloh, this week. On Friday, students will complete a graphic organizer in the shape of a beagle to draw together all of our reading skills we have studied while reading Shiloh. These will be on display in the hallway following Fall Break.

We are continuing to go through our grammar textbook. As we continue to work through the second chapter, students are learning more “jingles” and using the information they learn to write increasingly complex practice sentences. Through this, students gain writing practice and learn about the parts of speech and English language in a cohesive manner.

Our spelling words this week are commonly misspelled/ misused words: its & it’s; you’re & your; two, to & too. In this way, we hope to help children understand the proper usage of commonly misunderstood words. Additionally, students will not have an ongoing spelling list to study over Fall Break.

In Science this week, students are continuing the study of ecology—defined as the study of relationships between living things and their environment. We are studying habitats, predator/ prey relationships, and the food chain. This study will continue after fall break. Then, Science study will transition into the study of the human body.

Geography this week focuses on the study of important world rivers. Within this unit, students will learn the vocabulary words rill, canyon, erosion, meander, source, mouth, delta, dam, tributary, drainage basin and reservoir. A study guide will be sent home on Tuesday for the upcoming Geography test on Friday. This test will be the last test of the quarter and focus only on content covered in the Rivers unit.