Welcome back! We hope your November break was full of rest and time with family. This year has given us so many opportunities to exercise our flexibility as a learning community and we’re going to explore that concept over the next few weeks in an integrated project.
As readers, we’ll explore a series of biographies about subjects who adapted to challenging circumstances. We’ll consider the contributions of each subject, how he or she demonstrated resilience, and how they amplified their voice as a solution seeker. Students will have opportunities to study character traits, evaluate multiple perspectives, and determine important ideas using our 5-word strategy. In writing we’ll review independent and dependent clauses as building blocks of complex sentences. Then we’ll learn more about conjunctions and their role in sentences with two subjects and one predicate. We know that sentence structure helps us to communicate ideas clearly as speakers and writers, so this is such important work! We’ll also consider the importance of focus in our own narrative writing, so you may hear/see some short small moment pieces from your student’s notebook this week as we write about moments from our Thanksgiving break. By mid-week, we’ll be studying examples of quality expository writing and learning to organize our own ideas about adaptations using this text structure. As mathematicians, we’re going deeper with division this week. We’ll review how to visually represent multi digit division by dividing hundreds, tens, and ones into groups. We’ve seen that it’s much more efficient to first divide out groups of hundreds, breaking up the hundreds into leftover tens if needed. This observation helped us see how regrouping works with multi digit division, so this week we’ll explore the traditional long division algorithm and see how it relates to the visual strategies that we’ve used so far. Science and social studies this week are all about adaptations in the world around us. Students will asynchronously explore adaptations in plants and animals. Then they’ll learn about ways that humans have adapted or modified the physical landscape of our planet. It will be a pleasure to connect with you during conferences this week. We are truly grateful for your support and for the opportunity to partner with your family this year!
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