104- Weekly Updates (January 10-14, 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 GATE/APAAS Update No School January 17th and 18th Winterbowl Registration (Flag Football) - Represent Santiago Hills- Tournament is January 29th Global School Play Day (Play all day)- Wednesday February 2nd Open House Thursday, March 31st No School February 18th and 21st (Teacher Work Day and President’s Day) Read Across America Day (Read all day)- Wednesday March 2nd Reader’s Workshop We will start our next Reading Unit: Character Studies. Over the coming weeks the kids will get to know the character like a friend, read in book clubs,  follow the character’s journey, and compare and contrast characters across books. Next week we will start by noticing how a new character talks and acts and asking ourselves “What is my character like?” Writer’s Workshop We will finish publishing our piece of creative writing and start our next unit: Baby Literary Essay. The Literary Essay is something that will be revisited later in elementary school, middle school, and you might remember it from high school. This is an introductory version of that where students will grow ideas about characters and use evidence from the book to defend their position. We will start next week by coming up with some ideas about characters (and possibly lesson or themes). Math What happened to math class? We will continue our study of Area and Perimeter by spending time inside and outside our classroom measuring quadrilaterals and finding the area and perimeter of them. We may wrap up this unit with a quiz. Social Studies The kids will start our next unit learning about government. We will start by discussing what jobs exist in local government and next week get into the basic structure of the federal government. Science This is yet to be determined depending on a shipment. We will soon be studying some creatures up close and personal!