Important Dates & Reminders

• November 8 - Holiday - Election Day
• November 11 - Student Holiday - Veterans Day (School Planning Day & Parent Conferences)
• November 23-25  -  Thanksgiving Holiday

• Sign up for a parent teacher conference if you have not already done so.
• Make sure your child comes to school with one easy and healthy snack and water bottle every day.
• Contact the attendance office if there is a change to your child’s schedule

Language Arts

What we learned this past month:

Reading:

• We continued to make connections with characters to develop theories about characters’ motivations, relationships, and conflict.  
• We considered multiple points of view within a text.
• We expanded our thinking by hearing the perspectives of other readers in the classroom and built on ideas in our discussions. 
• We also began our Critical Literacy Unit: 
  • Looking at advertisements and media messages
  • Determining the difference between fact and opinion
  • Consider the author’s perspective 

    

     

Writing: 

• We finished our memoirs.
• We began brainstorming about persuasive essays.

What we will be learning next month:

Reading:

• We will continue our Critical LIteracy Unit
• We will begin learning about Nonfiction texts
  • Using them to evaluate multiple points of view
  • How readers’ beliefs impact how they interpret text
  • How text is crafted to communicate information

Writing:  

• We will write persuasive essays, publish them and then conduct a Socratic Seminar about a few of our classmates' essays.

Math

What we learned last month:

• We have been solving single-step and multistep practical problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers.  

What we will be learning next month:

• We will be estimating and determining the product and quotient of two numbers involving decimals
• We will be creating and solving single-step and multistep practical problems involving addition, subtraction, and multiplication of decimals, and create and solve single-step practical problems involving division of decimals.

Advanced Math

What we learned last month:

• We learned to multiply and divide fractions and mixed numbers
• We learned to solve single-step and multistep practical problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of fractions and mixed numbers.
• To solve multistep practical problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of decimals. 

What we will learn next month:

• We will be comparing and ordering positive rational numbers. 
• We will be identifying and representing integers. 
• We will be comparing and ordering integers. 
• We will be Identifying and describing the absolute value of integers. 
• We will be recognizing and representing patterns with whole number exponents and perfect squares.

Science

What we learned last month: 

• Force, Motion, and Energy sources
• We created projects using force and motion and presented them to our class
• The projects are now displayed in the STEAM lab

What we will be learning next month:

Students will begin learning about Landforms!

Students will:

• identify and describe the layers of the earth and how they interact.
• describe how changes in Earth’s crust cause earthquakes and volcanoes.
• describe the rock cycle and how rock types can change.
• make a connection between Earth’s history and fossil evidence.
• determine the effects of human impact on Earth’s landforms and how it can be controlled.

Social Studies

What we learned last month:

• We learned that culture is a way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs, traditions, values, and customs.
• We learned that cultural universals are common attributes that may be different across cultures. 
• A person’s culture often shapes their identity and behavior.
• Relationships are purposeful and can change over time.
• People and countries/cultures often establish relationships that can lead to interdependence (being mutually dependent on each other). 

What we will be learning next month:

• Technology and innovations continue to grow and change over time. 
• Cultural values, norms, and belief systems shape the identity and behavior of a group of people. 
• People are dependent on, adapt to, or change their environment.