127- Weekly Updates (January 2-6, 2023)

Need to Know Happy New Year! No School Monday, January 2 Ask the kids about “Mystery City” after school on Friday. Flag Deck (Parents can watch) Every Friday at 8:10 on the blacktop Reader’s Workshop We will spend a few days this week taking a close look at the vocabulary and characters in the short story “The Gift of the Magi”. The kids will also spend time discussing the story with the whole class and in small groups. The students will turn in some of their week at the end of the week. They will also create a list of fiction books they would like to read for their upcoming homework when we start our next unit. That unit called “Argument and Advocacy” will focus on students gathering information and taking a side on issues relevant to kids. Writer’s Workshop We will spend the week discussing the examples and definitions of the word “honor”. We will use that discussion to make New Year’s Resolutions about how kids can honor their teachers, school, family, classmates, friends, and themselves. In order to facilitate this thinking I’d like kids to bring in a baby picture of themselves on Thursday. It can be digital saved in their Google Drive. They will not be sharing these with the group, they just have to be able to see their own picture. The students will write about this and turn in work at the end of the week. Maths We have a short math schedule this week. We have time for a mathematical review scavenger hunt and Continental Mathematics League test on Thursday. Social Studies We will jump right back into the colonies and start studying the important founders of the 13 English colonies. The kids will also study some of the characteristics of the colonies and take a colonies geography quiz on Friday. Science We will read an informational text, then complete a graphic organizer explaining the relationships between Antarctic organisms. Students explain the cause and effect relationship between individual organisms and the food chain itself and of course have Science Lab with Ms. DeMarco. Vocabulary The students will start our first section of Classical Roots looking at Lesson 1 which has the roots “per” and “fer, ferre, tuli, latum.”