The terrific third graders enjoyed another outing with Henry Walters, learning to bird watch in our backyard. This wrapped up our study on birds. Thank you again to Henry for this super valuable experience.
For ELA, we worked on our Magic Finger unit. With Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book, the children learned new vocabulary, worked on fluency, and explored different story elements. They wrote and shared what they would want to be turned into with the "magic finger", along with the advantages and disadvantages of being that choice. The students took the pre-assessment for our upcoming Narrative unit. Also, they practiced the different grammar rules when adding a suffix. Our read-aloud for the past month or two has been Wishtree.
For Science, the past two weeks, the study was based on observations and explanation of how living things in groups help animals survive. Then, they moved into our unit on the life cycles of living things with MysteryScience.
4th/5th English Language Arts-
The 4th and 5th graders are taking a break from our Holes novel study to individually read Merek Bennett’s graphic novel - Freeman Colby in preparation for him to visit in two weeks. Merek will come to DCS to talk to the students about his graphic novels based on the memoir of Freeman Colby, a resident of Henniker, NH. The students will be using the graphic novel format to write their mini-graphic novels using their Science Fair topics. More details will be provided after the visit.
For writing, the students finished up their opinion essays, sharing them with their peers. After, they took their post-opinion writing assessment. The next unit of narrative writing started with a brief review of the components of a narrative essay. We will begin the unit next week. Also, they practiced the different grammar rules when adding a suffix.
Please remember to have your students read daily and return their Reading Logs on Monday, May 5, 2025.
All 3/4/5 grade families, save the date of Friday, June 20th, in the morning for our two classes' plays being presented in the morning.
