Another week has come and gone. It’s so hard to believe Thanksgiving is next week already! Below you will find some reminders, a recap, and plans for next week.

 

Classroom Need: Many students have used up all their glue sticks already. If you have any extras at home that you could send to school, we would greatly appreciate it. Thank you so very much!

 

 

 

For all those affected by the fire last weekend (from our class)

 

1. Please send your child with jackets/coats, hats, and gloves every day.

2. Wednesday is a Mass day and also an early out for the holiday. Our new servers continue to do a wonderful job. Next Wednesday, Jacob will be serving at Mass.

3. There will be no school next Thursday, Friday, or the following Monday. Enjoy your Thanksgiving break!

4. To play in the snow, students must have hats, coats, gloves, snow pants, and boots.

 

 

3rd Grade Math: The 3rd graders continued their unit on multiplication facts. They used the Associative Property to multiply three two-digit numbers, learned to multiply by 8 and 9, and solved story problems by creating a table that utilized multiplication and addition.

 

4th Grade Math: The 4th Graders began their new unit on division. The students reviewed and previewed division vocabulary, learned how to estimate quotients using a multiplication table, used models and manipulatives to divide uneven amounts (quotients with remainders), and learned how to use mental math to divide 10s, 100s, and 1000s by one-digit numbers.

 

Reading: Our class finished their escape room on Monday. Even the groups that didn’t win enjoyed practicing finding the main idea in our activities. Our focus then switched to identifying and using text features. The class learned about navigators (table of contents, title/heading, glossary, index), special text (bold, italicized, underlined, and all capital letters), and visual features (maps, charts, graphs, cut-aways, pictures and captions, diagrams and labels). As table groups, the students conducted scavenger hunts in non-fiction texts to find and show these text features to the class. The students also applied what they learned by completing activities in Google Slides to answer questions analyzing different types of text features.

 

Phonics/Spelling: Each group continued practicing their skills from last week. We completed sorting activities (including their favorite: Oops Sorts) and played Hangman to review for their tests. All groups took their Lesson 7 assessments.

 

Writing: The class continued working on their state projects. Some students have completed their projects, and many more are almost finished. We will do our best to complete them by the end of next week.

 

Social Studies: We started our mini-unit on the Transcontinental Railroad. We brainstormed ways transportation has evolved over the years. The students constructed their lapbooks that we will add to as the unit progresses. We watched a short video commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad so the students would have an idea of what we would be studying. The students learned about why the railroad was built, where it started and ended, and began to study the two companies who built it (Central Pacific and Union Pacific).

 

 

3rd Grade Math: The class will review what they learned about multiplication. On Tuesday, they will play Kahoot, and their test will be on Wednesday.

 

4th Grade Math: The students will continue their new unit on division. The students will learn how to divide by 1-digit numbers and interpret the remainder. Interpreting the remainder is a complicated lesson and will take at least 2 days.

 

Reading: We will continue our study of text features next week. Students will work on applying what they learned this week to analyze different text features within a text.

 

Phonics/Spelling: The groups will receive their 8th set of words. The groups will be working on the following new skills: beginning consonant sounds, short a vs. long a (silent-e), short o and long o (silent-e and vowel team oa), short a and o with -ar and -or, unusual plurals, and long o patterns in accented syllables. 

 

Writing: The students will continue to work on their Slides presentations of their states. Our goal is to have all of them completed by the end of the week.

 

Social Studies: We will continue our study of the Transcontinental Railroad. Students will learn details about the different difficulties the railroad companies had during construction, and we will begin to look at the difference the railroad made on transportation as a whole.

 

Have a blessed weekend!

Mrs. Amy Heisdorffer

aheisdorffer@sjknights.org

(309) 635-5876