Wow! Another week in the books!

THIS WEEK IN READING:
4: Students worked on strategies to identify unknown words in the text using context clues. We discussed different strategies and started reading a History Mystery called “The Mary Celeste” that had a lot of challenging vocabulary for us to discuss. In small groups, we discussed how to restate the question when we are answering and to use evidence from the text. We will continue this next week!
5: We worked on character traits! Students worked to identify character traits of characters they already knew (Harry Potter and Darth Vader) while also looking at characters in our texts that they are getting to know. We focused on being able to back up those traits based on things the characters think, feel, say or do.

THIS WEEK IN WRITING:
4: We focused on subject/verb agreement and took a closer look at capitalization rules. I realized many of us were making mistakes about proper and common nouns and now we should be experts!
5: We focused on possessive nouns and contractions. Students worked to differentiate the difference between them and decide when and where an apostrophe was needed!

SOCIAL STUDIES
4: Students took a quiz covering the different native american groups and their locations and languages this week and they ROCKED IT! I am so proud of them. We had scheduled salt dough maps for today (Friday 10/12) to show off what we learned about the regions, rivers, and language groups so far but with the surprise weather interruption we will have to reschedule for next week!
5: We continued our research to prep us for our Henrico Project Proposal projects. Next week students will work as advertising executives working for Henrico County, who is trying to draw in new business. There are lots of great reasons to locate a business in Henrico, but they need help to showcase and convince the companies. They are trying to convince a new company to relocate their business to somewhere within the boundaries of Henrico.

NEXT WEEK
READING:
4: We will continue working on using the text to answer questions and show evidence of our answers. Students will also be able to describe how the choice of language, setting, characters, details, and other information contribute to the author’s purpose
5: We will continue looking at character traits while also starting our study of nonfiction text features.

WRITING:
4: Students will work on recognize that different modes of writing have different patterns of organization. We are going to hone in our focus on the narrative. We will look at different graphic organizers and how to best organize our ideas before starting a writing prompt.
5: The students will write for a variety of purposes: to describe and to entertain. We will look at how the audience determines the type of writing we do and what makes each type of writing unique. The students will also continue to edit writing for correct grammar, capitalization, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, and paragraphing.

SOCIAL STUDIES
4: We will continue to review what we have learned so far about Virginia’s regions, rivers, language groups, and climate in review for a summative test.
5: We will continue our study of Henrico County by looking at geography, history, economy, government, and the school system. Students will work as advertising executives working for Henrico County, who is trying to draw in new business. There are lots of great reasons to locate a business in Henrico, but they need help to showcase and convince the companies. They are trying to convince a new company to relocate their business to somewhere within the boundaries of Henrico. We will also have a lesson with Mr. Clough! 🙂

Upcoming Events and Reminders

• *PLEASE TURN IN JAMESTOWN MONEY MONDAY* Our deadline was Friday, but since we did not have school we will extend until Monday!! 🙂 Cost is $33 for a student. We currently have enough chaperones for our class, but if this changes, I will reach out to parents who have shown interest!*
• 10/17- Reading IA Test
• 10/19- JAMESTOWN FIELD TRIP! More information will come home next week about timing, details, and pickup! Remember we will not get back at school until after 5 so students will need to be picked up
• Please make sure that you are going through your child’s Trevvett folder. This is where I send home all school papers, graded papers, as well as fill out the weekly behavior log. If you have any questions regarding anything that is sent home, please let me know! No behavior reports this week because we did not have school on Friday! Sorry!
• We are still collecting the $5 donation for Story Works, please consider donating if you haven’t already done so.