Friday, November 20, 2015

November 16th - 20th

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, November 24th ~ Lower Division In-Gathering Chapel

Wednesday, November 25th - Friday, November 27th ~ Thanksgiving Break

Thursday, December 3rd ~ Nouns Test

Thursday, December 3rd ~ 3rd - 5th Grade Christmas Program at 7:00 pm

Friday, December 4th ~ Read for 2016

Tuesday, December 15th ~ Fifth Grade Field Trip to see A Christmas Carol at KC Rep 

Thursday, December 17th ~ Presidents' Unit Kick-Off

Friday, December 18th ~ Eucharist Chapel, 3rd-5th Ice Skating Field Trip, Class Parties at 2:30

*Weather Note: As the temperatures continue to drop, we wanted to send a reminder that we will continue to go outside for recess if at all possible. We think it is important that students have the time outdoors for fresh air and exercise, so please help remind your students to bring appropriate winter clothes with them to school so they are able to stay warm and enjoy their time outside. 

Academics

In Language Arts this week, we continued our grammar unit on nouns. We reviewed singular and plural nouns, common and proper nouns, and possessive nouns. We will continue this unit into next week and will wrap it up on December 3rd with a unit test.  

In reading,  Miss O'Connor's class continued reading Running Out of Time.  Students will finish the book over Thanksgiving break.  We will do a short in class project and take a comprehension exam over the book when we return.  Mrs. Nash's class began reading The Watson's Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis. It is a historical fiction novel, and as we read we will primarily be focusing on character development and setting. 

In social studies this week, we finished our study of exploration and took our chapter three test. We also began learning about the first English settlements in North America. Students learning about the mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke, and they worked to develop a theory about what really happened to the Roanoke colonists. Next week, we will learn about Jamestown. Following Thanksgiving break, we will begin a project about the English colonies in merica. North A

In Science this week, students continued learning about classification.  We gathered information about vertebrates and invertebrates through non-fiction texts and applied that knowledge to make graphic organizers and Venn Diagrams.  We then learned how scientists use dichotomous keys to classify organisms.  We used a dichotomous key ourselves to classify jelly beans!  Next week, we will create our own dichotomous key. 

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