In Reader's Workshop, we’ll continue our non-fiction study: Reading the Weather, Reading the World. We’ll learn how to utilize text features, analyze challenging vocabulary, and summarize and synthesize texts. At the end of this month, students will form collaborative teams to research an extreme weather form!
Let the debates begin with persuasive opinion writing in Writer's Workshop! Students will craft five-paragraph essays that include a strong thesis statement (claim), powerful reasons that support that claim, and a conclusion. We’ll begin by writing opinion essays about topics that we relate to very well -- favorite types of ice cream, genres of music, etc. We’ll expand to topics to include our Parker community and beyond.
After building a strong conceptual and practical base in multiplication strategies, we are ready to divide one-digit numbers in Math Workshop. We'll focus on how multiplication and division function as inverse operations, and we'll review fact-families. From there, we’ll study remainders and the strategy of using partial quotients to solve division problems.
