115- Weekly Updates (April 25-29, 2022)

Dear Families of Room F1, We’re going to have a great upcoming week. Below is a short description of what’s coming up and important links and/or announcements: Watch These Announcements on Video Here Mr. Gray’s Class Podcast Class Website Decades Dress Up Day- Wednesday April 27th AWISH- April 22nd May 6th, 5-8pm Monday, May 30th is the Memorial Day Holiday (no school) IPSF Summer Classes and Camps Registration- This is a class taught by a good friend of mine Multiplication and Division Facts Practice Spelling Words - The kids will receive the words Tuesday, practice during the week, and take the quiz on Friday. Follow along with our Wordament! And our Class Chess Tournament! Reader’s Workshop The students will continue the Reader’s Workshop Unit: Mystery (Foundational Skills in Disguise). We will spend the week understanding the mystery by collaborating with partners (like real crime solvers), keeping hold of the mystery even when the book is long and tricky, and understanding common patterns and characteristics of mysteries. Writer’s Workshop The kids continue on our Writer’s Workshop Unit: Changing the World (Persuasive Speeches). The kids will raise the level of their writing by gathering more information about their opinion, organizing and categorizing their supporting information, and proving their point by giving evidence using transitions like “For example”. Math What happened to math class? The kids will spend the week on our next unit: Representing Data with Graphs. The kids will learn about line plots and compare and contrast picture graphs, bar graphs, and line plots. We will finish up the unit with an assessment on Friday. Social Studies Nothing this week. Science The kids will start on the next part of our weather unit. For a few weeks we will study severe weather (lightning, floods, wildfires, and more). Next week we will build up our background knowledge about these kinds of severe weather. Thank you, Mr. Gray