Monday, October 5, 2020

Hi Everyone,

Thank you all for attending our virtual open houses. You asked wonderful questions and we appreciated hearing your feedback. We will continue to update our assignments and list due dates on our drive that we have shared with you. 

Here are some conversation starters:

What do units squared means?

What does it mean to pause and think online?

punctual ( vocabulary word of the week)

I'm all ears. ( idiom of the week)

King Louis XIV ( topic of our Daily Oral Language sentences)

Kahoot 

The Liberation of Gabriel King

In language arts this week we will be working on developing paragraphs.  There is a packet that went home with Cohort 1 on Friday and will go home today with Cohort 2. We will be working on topic and concluding sentences, transitions, evidence and explanations of the evidence.  This week's topic is about a trip that they have taken.   

Language Arts classes work on poetry during class new poems class on Thursday for Cohort 1 and Friday for Cohort 2. Last week's poems was In The Front Yard Where The Maple Tree Stands. The poems review the figurative language we are learning about. We have talked about stanzas and rhyming patterns. There is a poetry section in our reader's notebooks where we glue in the poems of the week and take brief notes.  We noticed the personification, alliteration, and ABAB rhyme scheme. We also will be writing our own  poems.  

In reading this week we finished up Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days.  Ask your child what big lesson Milo learned.  We also worked on our Reader's Timelines.  Ask your child to show youprogress.  This will be due next Tuesday 10/6. 

 

In social studies we took our quiz on the continents and oceans.  We started our journey into the discovery of the americas by listening to a book online and writing new facts we learned. See what they remember!  We also learned about China's Golden Age.  Ask them what was the most important change to China during its Golden Age?  We began reading current events on a website called Newsela (have the kids show you this site designed for kids to learn about current events).  They all read an article and share three things they learned or thought were cool, so ask them about it!