Announcement for this week of Nov. 9-13. Our new AR point goal for this week is 13 points. We are collecting canned foods to create a Thanksgiving Food Baskets that will bless families in need. Thanksgiving will be upon us soon! We are planningt to have a feast the Thursday before the break. More information will be coming soon. Instructional Overview Reading - 1)Sequencing events of a story 2)Analyzing text elements 3) Discussing Author's Purposes for writing 4) Visualization Spelling Strageties- 1)Phonemes in isolation 2)Consonant Clusters 3) Consonant-Short Vowel-Consonant pattern, 4)Thesaurus searching skills for synonyms Grammar - 1) Identifying the subject and predicate in a sentence 2)Editor's marks for proofreading 3) Be Verbs: Past, Present, & Future Tense 4) Reviewing Singular & Plural Possessive Nouns 5)Helping Verbs, 6) Commas 7) Combining Sentences Writing - 1)Descriptive Paragraphs 2)Using a Hamburger Graphic Organizer to identify the main idea, supporting details, and closing sentence in a paragraph 3)Editing and Revising our books for publishing 5)How to write a book reviews Math - 1)Rounding to the nearest tens and hundreds 2)pattern rules 3) counting money 4)understaning the term difference 4)addition strategies - place value models, and regrouping 5)counting on to make change 6) subtracting with borrowing 7) estimating 8) Using R.I.C.E. to solve word problems 9) Using arrays and repeated addition to create multiplication problems Science - 1) What is the Water Cycle? 2) Are all liquids the same?