Week of April 2nd

Writer's Workshop:
We are working on our creative narrative unit and are focusing on including good details and describing words. The kids will go through the writing process to write a creative story this week.

Project Group:
We are continuing with our Economics unit. This week the kids are learning about Opportunity cost, producers, consumers, and trade. The kids are doing well with picking up the new vocabulary through our play-dough economics lessons.

Reading:

Mrs. Johns' Reading:

Story of the week: Mother of the Waters (Junior Great Books Series)
Words of the week: get, pretty, come, old, said

We will be doing a lot of comprehension work with the Mother of the Waters story this week, including sequencing, character maps, and exploring the setting.

Ms. Aguilar's Reading:
Miss Abeyta will be teaching our reading unit this week.


Story of the Week: A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
Genre: realistic fiction
Comprehension Skill: identifying the plot of the story
Word Wall Words: won't, were, where, when, why, was

Mrs. Sullivan's Reading:
Word family - suffixes tion, sion
dictation words:
(tion) fraction, question, vacation, dictation
(sion) discussion, explosion, confusion, decision
High frequency words: everything, anyone, something, everybody

Dictation sentences:
1. Does anyone know where I left my pencil pouch?
2. I already asked everybody if they found my pencil pouch.
3. You lost something every day this week.

We are practicing comprehension skills this week, including predicting, sequencing, and finding details for the beginning, middle, end of a story.

Math:
Mrs. Johns' Math: This week in math, we will start spending a few minutes each day on test taking strategies in preparation for the Stanford 10 test. We will also be doing a Data Project, where the kids will have to apply data collection, analysis, and organization to solve a real-life problem.

Monday: Introduction to a new Test Taking Strategy & Tile Math
Tuesday: Begin Data Project
Wednesday: Continue Data Project
Thursday/Friday: Centers

Ms. Aguilar's Math: In math this week we will add double digit numbers without regrouping. We will continue to review place value.
Monday: Place value test
Tuesday: Double digit addition
Wednesday: Double digit addition
Thursday: double digit math centers
Friday: Double digit math centers

Mrs. Sullivan's Math: This week in math, we will start spending a few minutes each day on test taking strategies in preparation for the Stanford 10 test. We are also learning place value and double digit addition.