In PE students begin their unit on Olympics. This is sure to be a great time! I'm so excited to see our kids enjoying this unit. Check out Mr. Pfahler's lessons in PE Google Classroom and ask your student about it on Wednesdays.
Science
Our class will resume science this week, beginning a new unit called Plant Adventures. This unit develops the idea that plants are truly alive and face challenges every bit as dramatic as those of animals. Students will learn that plants have needs, and will reason from evidence to understand how plants meet their needs. Their attention will be drawn to exciting connections they can observe in their everyday world: why forests are dark, why trees grow so tall, and more. -Mystery Doug
Reading
Our students will continue to explore various styles of writing: advertisements, poetry, emails, songs... Our main focus is to understand the text, including the author's purpose behind the writing. We will work on summarizing these different types of text this week; making sure we are able to pick out the most important parts.
Math
We will continue to work with graphs and practice with multi-step word problems with addition and subtraction through 1,000. Our class will incorporate graphs beyond the basic bar graph: line plots, pie graphs, pictographs, and Venn diagrams...
Support at Home
Read, Read, Read! Students should be reading each day for 20-30 minutes. Practicing basic math facts is still critical, especially subtraction. Using IXL, sections L and R will support our work at school this week.
