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13, 2014
Weekly Newsletter
Curriculum Review
Reading:
This
week
in
Wonders
our
essen/al
ques/on
was,
How
can
others
inspire
you?
Our
comprehension
skill
was
to
reread
for
be@er
understanding
while
the
comprehension
strategy
that
we
prac/ced
was
to
iden/fy
the
theme
of
a
poem.
We
prac/ced
using
these
strategies
with
poetry.
They
created
ac/ons
and
deni/ons
for
our
vocabulary
words
this
week
which
were
extremely,
weird,
courageous,
adventurous,
narra/ve
poems,
free-verse,
rhyme,
repe//on.
For
grammar,
we
prac/ced
iden/fying
past
tense
verbs.
Wri,ng:
This
week
in
wri/ng,
our
students
added
stage
notes
to
their
published
fables.
They
also
learned
about
the
three
elements
of
pantomime.
On
Friday
we
made
masks
for
our
fable
characters.
Next
week
the
students
will
pantomime
their
fables
using
their
masks
for
our
arts
integrated
project.
Math:
In
math,
we
worked
on
dierent
strategies
to
es/mate
subtrac/on
problems
to
the
nearest
mul/ple
of
10
and
100.
Social
Studies:
In
social
studies,
our
class
is
learning
all
about
economics.
Next
week
they
will
have
an
economic
market
to
sell
their
goods
to
each
other.
Science:
We
began
our
new
unit
in
ma@er.
The
essen/al
ques/on
this
week
was,
How
can
we
nd
the
weight
of
objects?
Students
rst
created
a
hypothesis
of
which
object
would
be
the
lightest
and
heaviest,
and
then
they
used
a
scale
and
weights
to
nd
the
correct
weight
in
grams.
Notes
*We
are
going
to
have
our
economic
market
on
Friday,
and
so
students
need
to
make
any
goods
before
Friday.
*If
any
parents
can
volunteer
to
help
during
the
market,
please
let
me
know!
*Reading
week
is
next
week.
I
will
a@ach
a
schedule
with
the
email.
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