News from Trailer E

Reading & Social Studies:

We've been questioning as we read. We defined the difference between explicit and implicit questions and applied those questions to the book The Stranger. This week we also started reading about Native Americans. We introduced our Native Americans group research project. Students will be researching and presenting about the culture, government, geography, and history of Native Americans. The students seem really excited about this project!

Writing:

After lots of brainstorming and planning, we've finally started drafting our personal narrative. Your student had a lot of great stories to tell, so I'm really looking forward to reading their pieces. They have particularly enjoyed our writing stations and creating a "book cover" for their piece. I'm really impressed with the narrative leads I've seen from the students.  They are doing a great job of "showing" and not just "telling" what happens in their story.  I can't wait to share their writing with you in October.

Math:

In math we are working on multi digit multiplication.  Students are reviewing strategies we learned last year and are applying these strategies to larger numbers.  This week we will be learning about exponents and multiplication expressions.

ATTENTION!  HELP WANTED!

Our music teacher, Mrs. Sharp, is looking for some parent volunteers to help her put together a slide show of pictures for the Veteran's Day Performance.  Please let me know if you are interested in helping!

Check out some pictures of what we've been up to!