It’s hard to believe that it is November! Please remember to send your child to school daily with a coat, hat, and mittens, as recess time can be chilly!
For Social and Emotional learning, Mrs. Garland’s class continues learning about the Worry Woos. “The Worry Woo program is an evidence-based curriculum that includes props for teaching Social-Emotional Learning.” Ask your child about Nola, the monster of loneliness. Across the hall, Mrs. Quinn’s class continues to work on developing strategies to show kindness. Our current focus is on using positive self-talk and positive words to others.
For Language Arts, the third-grade students started our Literacy Pilot through the Conval School District this week. The first unit will focus on the core knowledge topic of Animal Classification, and our word work will focus on adding the suffixes -ed and -ing to root words. The fourth- and fifth-grade students will read several Thanksgiving-themed texts and focus on making inferences. They will also work on verbs in grammar and continue with ‘r’ controlled vowels, suffixes, and Greek and Latin roots in spelling.
For Math, the third-grade students will encounter the concept of area, relate the area of rectangles to multiplication, and solve problems involving area. The fourth graders are beginning Unit 3! The topic is Using Operations with Fractions. At the same time, the fifth graders have started a new Unit with a focus on Multiplying Fractions.
The Harris Center continues to support our science program with a kickoff to our Land and Water study for third- and fourth-graders. The fifth-grade students began their social studies unit on mapping the United States. They are embarking on a challenge to identify all 50 states on the map and to select a state for an individual mini-research project.
