Friday, October 24

During readers' workshop, your child learned to use dialogue to learn more about their characters in a deeper way.  Using our read

aloud book, Goblins in the Castle, your child used different sections of dialogue to prove that the character, Fauna, was easily frustrated and fierce. They applied this knowledge into their own independent reading book.

During writers' workshop, we analyzed how Chris VanAllsburg concluded his memoir, My First Steps to the White House. (click here to read our model memoir) We learned that memoirists write the ending by reflecting back and talking directly to the reader about what was learned from the memory.  Your child reworked their ending in order to incorporate this new learning.

In science, we continued our conversation about the water cycle.  I posed the question, how much does a cloud weigh? Students were excited to share their answer.  Many students mentioned 0.5 pounds or maybe 1 pound, they soon were shocked.  If you want to be shocked too, click here and watch.

In math, we took today to review some of the concepts from the previous few days such as exponential notation, standard notation, and expanded notation.  Coming up next, multi digit multiplication (they finally get to learn U.S. traditional multiplication).

Thank you for coming to the ice cream social yesterday. I had a lot of fun getting a chance to talk with many of you.  Enjoy the weekend.
Mr. Reed

Homework:
- 30 minutes of reading

Reminders:
- Camp forms are due
- Camp (October 24 - 26)