Hello Room 5 students and parents! The first full week of October has flown by and we are heading into the long Thanksgiving weekend. The students spent part of the week discussing and writing about the many thing that we have in our lives that we are thankful for and the list was long! We all realized how grateful we are to live in a country where our quality of life is very high compared to so many other places in the world.
In Mathematics, students are reviewing increasing patterns and writing specific pattern rules to match up with the pattern they are being asked to create themselves. Students have also been looking at representing numbers with 3 digits and soon will be looking at numbers that go above 1000.
In Social Studies, we continue to explore the land and climates of the various countries we study. We have discussed how land can greatly effect people's quality of life and whether the land is suitable for people to meet their needs.
In Science, we have explored birds, fish, insects and amphibious types of animals in our studies of animal life cycle. Each category of animals have various types of body parts that allow them to move, swim and breathe in their respective environments. Students recently learned that insects or invertebrates make up almost 95 percent of the total animals found on Earth!
In Reading, students have started to work in their small guided reading groups doing a variety of literacy activities throughout the week. The students are being asked to explain how they decode unfamiliar words they find in the stories they read and also what reading strategies great readers use to understand the various elements found in the stories being read.
Again, there is no school on Monday, but I hope that you are able to spend some quality time together with family and look forward to hearing all the wonderful stories from the students about their weekends! Happy Thanksgiving!