October 20-24

October 20-24

Writing

This week we will practice writing brief comments about nonfiction information.  We will use Halloween/pumpkins as our topic.  Our “All About” booklets will keep our comments, diagrams, and comparisons that we write comments about.  

Reading

We are starting our Trick or Treat book reports this week. Students will dive into their chosen fiction book to identify characters, setting, the problem and solution, and their favorite part of the story! The pumpkin characters will be due on Monday, October 27th.

Math

Our study of 3-dimensional geometry continues this week. We will combine writing and math by making a “Wanted” poster for a shape that has committed a crime. How will we know what the criminal looks like? Students will have to describe the shape’s attributes so the public knows what to look for! We will review our learning on Tuesday before assessing on Wednesday. We are beginning a new unit on 3 digit place value later in the week. We got the basics down with 2 digit place value; now we will see how adding a third digit changes things!

Science

This week in science we will be comparing changes in materials caused by heating and cooling.  We will predict and compare changes to wet paper when heat is applied and removed.  We’ll explore changes from hot to cold in liquids and compare their physical properties.  Experimenting with freezing and melting will be a blast as we explore liquids and solids that have been frozen.  Our senses will help us discover what is still felt frozen, what was gooey, what textures had changed and what felt the same.  At the end of week we will be engineers and make gnome bridges.  We will use items to illustrate and model  how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a problem.  We’ll discover what happens when you put different materials together they can do things that they cannot do by themselves

Reminders

Friday, October 24: First nine-weeks ends

Saturday, October 25: Caraway Harvest Festival

Wednesday, October 29: Early Release - school ends at 12:45pm