October 27-31st

Cougar Reading-  It will be a hauntingly good week as we read spooky stories, poems and partake of a few Halloween brain teasers.

ELA/ Science- In class we learned that Earth's surface is covered with a variety of water and landforms.  We learned many vocabulary words such as river, ocean, volcano, and mountain. We are having a great time identifying them on maps and models. This week we will create a model of water landforms with slices of bread and later this week build landforms in sand. We will also learn about Pangea and introduce plate tectonics this week.

Math- Mental Addition Strategies will be introduced and practices this week in class.

Writing-  In class we will write about pet monsters in class as we visualize, draw and describe our monsters to each other. We will also create a user's care guide for our monsters.

Week of October 12-17

Cougar Reading-  We will continue to practice writing sentences and identifying them as being telling sentences, questions, exclamations and commands. We will also add a little pizzazz to our sentences as we create a list of spooky nouns and adjectives to use in October journals and in our upcoming Haunted House story.

ELA/Social Studies- There will be no small group reading this week so that I can conduct end of the quarter benchmark tests. In whole group we will continue to study geography. We will create a map of our street and a map of Shawnee in class. We will also use the Kansas map, United States map , Seven Continents map and a world map as apply our knowledge of cardinal directions and create a flip book in class. We will also write our first narrative of the year about a haunted house that is for sale.

Math-In class we are continuing to work on place value as we read and write numbers to 1,000 in various ways. We are showing numbers using models, number-words, and expanded form.

Week of October 6-10th

Cougar Reading:   October is here and we will enhance our sentence writing abilities this week as we review the four types of sentences: questions, statements, commands and exclamations by writing some "bewitching" sentences in class. We will also go batty this week by reading, discussing and summarizing information about the only mammal that flies: BATS!!

Spelling: Students will study and practice with the ow/oa spelling pattern.

ELA/ Social Studies:  This week we will begin a two week Geography unit. In class we will read aloud  the books Route 66, The Scrambled States of America and The Scrambles States of America Talent Show. In class, we will learn that mapmakers are known as cartographers and compare maps from the past and present. We will also practice using a weather map in class this week.

Math-  We will complete Topic 5: Place Value to 100 this week and take a math test on Thursday, October 9th. In class we are using a hundred chart as well as ten rods and one cubes to model different ways to count and classify given numbers.