November 13-17

Writing:
Last week we read a book called Turk and Runt and laughed when the turkeys disguised themselves as snowmen to prevent them from being eaten for someone's holiday dinner. This week, we are coming up with new disguises for the turkeys and writing letters to them explaining our great idea! We will learn about the different parts of a letter, how to address a letter, and how to properly end a letter. Students will practice writing in complete sentences with appropriate punctuation and capital letters.

Reading:
We are working on making inferences. Turk and Runt was full of clues of what was really going on in the story but didn't actually explain it. Students will look at examples of this and realize they have been making inferences already! We will also look at some other familiar books to see what the author has told us without truly saying it.

Math:
We are learning about finding the area of shapes this week. Students will break shapes into square units and count them in order to find the area of the shape. We will look at shapes make out of Cheez-it crackers, shapes around our school, shapes in a robot, and find the area in them all!

Science:
We are continuing to learn about patterns of movement by experimenting with different objects to see how they move. Will a cube slide? Does a cone roll? Does it roll in a straight line? We will test out different objects to see! We will also look at the physical properties of different objects to see if we can predict how it will move.

Question of the week: What is the difference between a llama and an alpaca?

Reminders:
Thanksgiving lunch: November 15- eat in our classroom at 11!
Thanksgiving holiday: November 20-24