Conference Week

Hi Parents and Students,

This is our all-important conference week! We will be discussing the scores from your child's District Benchmark Assessment, progress so far this year, as well as the upcoming CRCT. I look forward to meeting with you all this week.

This Week in Class:

In reading today, we began the book, Punished! by David Lubar. We will be reading this book as our chapter book study for the next few weeks, and it is a great tool to teach figurative language (anagrams, puns, oxymorons, etc.).

In math, students have been learning about different types of graphs. So far, we've covered tally charts, bar graphs, and line plots. This week, we will cover pictographs and line graphs, focusing on interpreting them and using data to create them.

In language arts, we've been working on pronouns and how they replace nouns. We also finished up our Response to Literature writing sample. Students chose a book to read and had to make a text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connection.

Our social studies time has been very interesting, as we've finished Lyndon B. Johnson and have moved on to our last famous American, Cesar Chavez. We also have learned about latitude and longitude and how we use these lines to locate places on Earth.

CHALLENGE: Today's challenge actually has a reward! Today, we talked about possessive pronouns. Choose one of the following pairs of words: your/you're, their/they're, its/it's. For the pair of words you picked, explain what the difference is between the words (1 coin). Then, give an example sentence using each word correctly (2 coins). Remember to make your examples ORIGINAL. Don't copy the work of someone else. Also, don't forget to sign your name after your comment.

Have a great week!
-Mrs. Green