57- Weekly Updates (September 14-18, 2020)

Dear Parents, 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 Online Permission Slips Updated Return to School Plan Read These Books! (make a goodreads.com account with your child to help find books) We will be starting the DARE program soon with Officer D’Alena. She needs you to approve your child’s participation in the DARE program.  Click here to fill out the permission slip. Reader’s Workshop We will continue our unit called “Making Reading a 10 out of 10”. We are reviewing and establishing systems to support reading and learning some basic strategies for thinking while reading fiction books. Writer’s Workshop Be sure to check in with your child about their small moment story. For an extra challenge ask your child to open up the rubric and together you can check and see if the writing met all the requirements. We will move on from small moments to Opinion writing next week and start by giving awards to items in a collection. Math Math Answers and Help Here The kids will continue reviewing decimals, get feedback on their decimals quiz, and move on to studying fraction operations. History We will continue our study of early humans in particular, hunter gatherer societies and the students will work on their early human timelines. We will review for a short quiz on hunter gatherers on Friday. (We didn’t get to the quiz this week). Science The kids will work with Mr. Nelson in science lab and we may start our first unit from our science textbook. Thank you, Mr. Gray