Wood's Wonderful World
Math
- Manatees: Students will start a new unit on multiplying 2-, 3-, and 4-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers.
Cranes: The Cranes will start a new unit focused on fluently multiplying multi-digit whole numbers.
Monkeys: The Monkeys will dive into strategies for multiplying multi-digit numbers by multi-digit numbers. They are way too excited about this one! 😄
Literacy
Groups will begin working with both me and Mrs. Robichaud. When students are with Mrs. Robichaud, they’ll focus on Jr. Great Books stories. When they’re with me, they’ll focus on book studies with specific literacy skills woven in.
Don’t be surprised if your student has a bit of reading to get done before the next time we meet! 📚
Pancakes: Students will start a new book study on The City of Ember. Together. We will focus on symbolism and motifs. Independently, students will connect each chapter to a given theme as they read. They will also complete several Literature Responses along the way.
Waffles: Students will begin a book study of Frindle, focusing on creating GIST statements and using context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words. They will also begin working on Literature Responses.
Writing
Let the hard writing begin! ✏️
After break, we’ll be starting our first five-paragraph opinion essay! This is new for all of our students, so don’t be surprised if there’s a little struggle at first. In Discovery, we like the struggle—it means they’re learning, growing, and stretching their thinking!
Science/Social Studies
To start, we will focus on Earth Science! This will include topics such as landforms, the rock cycle, the water cycle, and more.
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This week, Karen got engaged and married to Alfredo!
Alfredo= Ella V.’s child
Just so you know, Karen and Alfredo are still zero years old.
Next week, Karen and Alfredo are going to Mexico for their honeymoon (I’m not joking). Since they are still babies, I’m going to chaperone them. I’ll tell you all about how it went in the next newsletter.
In case you don’t know who Karen is (which I hope you do) I’ll tell you about her.
Karen’s favorite food: flesh
Karen’s favorite hobby: biting (I can’t stop her from doing it)
Karen’s favorite subject: writing
Karen’s favorite place she’s ever been: her bed (agreed 💤🥱)
Karen’s favorite animal: bat
Now I’m going to tell you about Jeff, Karen’s little brother.
Jeff is really young because he is Karen’s younger brother and Karen is about a month old. Jeff’s full name is Jeff the third remainder seven. Here’s some facts about Jeff:
Jeff's favorite food: bones and Mc donalds chicken nuggets.
Jeff's favorite animal: Sharks
Jeff's hobbies: bitting people and hanging with Karen
Jeff's favorite subject: Math
Jeff's favorite place: Ms. Wood's classroom.(Well that's the only place he’s really been)
Ps. Jeff is a super hero🦸
P.S. Did I forget to tell you Karen is a skeleton? Sorry!
"You know that picture on the board in the hall? My Stockton did that! My Stockton."
"Volcanoes cause DEATH" 🙈