This last week, as a class we have been reading our novel study book, Iqbal. The discussions we are starting to have connecting the Rights of A Child with what democracy is, have been fabulous! Students are reading the book to each other, as I help support language and vocabulary use by the author. Students are doing an outstanding job articulating, reading to understand, and backing up to re-read when word order is different or when clarification is needed. Some students are starting to ask really complex questions, in relation to the dynamics and topics within the book. Students were asked to practice using visualization skills to understand a particular scene more fully, and to use actions of a character to begin inferring character traits. It has been outstanding to hear every students voice, and to discuss topics that help everyone to understand the complex world around us.
We explored Romero Britto this week. Here are couple of examples of the work we accomplished this week partially in class, and as homework.
This coming week, we will begin exploring place value and building our understanding for our work with integers and then into ratios and percents. In science we have been building further knowledge about trees and forests, and this week we are connecting trees and forests to the oxygen and water cycles. We will also be moving forward with our Graphing Our Health activities, and end up having students using Google Sheets to chart and graph their findings. Being that we are heading into Remembrance Day, we will also be furthering our art skills this week, and learning more about citizen participation in democracy.
Thank you, once again for all that you do to support and foster learning at home. I sincerely appreciate you!
Warmest regards,
Mrs. Easton
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