I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.
Reading- This week students will continue working on finding text features in nonfiction texts. We will be going over titles, headings, timelines, table of contents, photographs, subheadings, captions, diagrams, labels, charts, tables, maps, bold/highlighted/italic words, textbox/sidebars, bullets, glossaries, and indexes. Students will identify how these text features help them better understand a text. Students will be looking for examples of these text features in our science books and in informational texts they read. Homework for this week will be sent home on Monday, November 5th and due Friday, November 9th. Grammar- This week, students will review verb tenses including past, present, and future tenses. They will also review irregular verbs and subjects and predicates. We will also begin learning about the different types of sentences (interrogative, imperative, declarative, and exclamatory). Spelling –Students will concentrate on Sort 14this week. Our spelling quiz on these three sorts will be on Friday, November 16th. Writing- We will continue to work on our informative writing unit where students introduce a topic, develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details, and use linking words and phrases to connect ideas within categories of information. Students will also provide a concluding section. Informational essays will include 5 paragraphs: an introduction to the topic, 3 paragraphs explaining the 3 big ideas or subtopics that support their topic, and a conclusion. This week we will focus on writing subtopic or our 3 big idea paragraphs, citing evidence, and writing conclusions. Social Studies- We are continuing our unit on European Exploration in North America. We will be discussing why there was a need for exploration, and introducing the explorers Christopher Columbus (Spain), John Cabot (England), Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spain), Jacques Cartier (France), Hernando de Soto (Spain), and Henry Hudson (Netherlands). During this unit, students will be learning about 6 different explorers and how they adapted, or failed to adapt to the various physical environments they traveled, as well as their accomplishments, and cooperation and conflict with the Native Americans. Please study the Social Studies interactive notebook with your child each night. There will be a quiz at the end of this week. Reminder: What: Chick-fil-A Spirit Night Where: Chick-fil-A at Alpharetta Commons Date: Wednesday, November 14th and Thursday, November 15th Time: All day!! Students/parents may visit all day. Families must say they are from Dolvin for the school to get credit. Why: To support Dolvin and “Eat more Chikin!” The class with the most participation will wins a chicken biscuit party! **Dolvin will have special guest readers each night starting at 5:00 pm. Important Dates: November 6: No school (Election Day) November 6-9: Food Drive November 14 and 15: Chickfila Spirit Night November 16: Spelling Quiz on Sorts 13, 14 and 15 Have a wonderful week!
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