Looking Ahead Week of December 3

Looking Ahead 

Week of December 3

ELA:   We will begin thinking about enhancing our writing with vivid details and effective beginnings and endings. We will have a test on Dear Juno on Tuesday.

Math:  We will continue with adding, subtracting, and estimation.  We will have a quiz on lessons 14-16 on Monday.

Science:  We will wrap up our learning about water habitats.  We will begin learning about rocks and minerals.  We will have a quiz on water habitats on Thursday.

Social Studies:  We will continue learning about the early colonization of Carolina.

Happy Thanksgiving

Have a wonderful break!

Wanted: Headphones and Earbuds

Headphones and Earbuds

Please check with your child to see if their headphones and/or earbuds are working properly.  Many of the applications and programs use sound. Many students are reporting wear and tear with theirs.  

Week Ahead November 26-30

Looking Ahead

Week of November 26-30

ELA:  We will turn our focus back to fiction.  We will work with using context clues to help determine meaning as well as purposefully make connections with what we read.

Science:  We will continue learning about water habitats.

Social Studies:  We will begin learning about the permanent settlement of Carolina.

Math:  We will continue with rounding numbers and estimating sums and differences. We will have a quiz on lessons 12-14 on Friday, November 30.

Week Ahead November 19-20

Week of November 19

ELA:  We will continue to work with nonfiction reading strategies.  We will also continue working with prefixes to help us with context clues, deciphering new word sounds, and overall comprehension.  We will also continue working with a new strategy to help us with answering questions in any subject.  This strategy is restating the question.

Math:  We will be working with rounding strategies.

Science:  We will begin learning about water habitats.

Social Studies:   We will wrap up our learning about early explorers.

Week Ahead November 12-16

Looking Ahead 

Week of November 12

ELA:  We will continue working with nonfiction comprehension strategies.  Ask your child about Big Universe and Readworks next week.  We will be using various resources to read "just right" articles to aide in comprehension.

Math:  We will continue working with estimation and rounding. We will have a quiz on lessons 9-11 on Thursday.

Science:  We will continue learning about hot and cold deserts.  Students will have a quiz on these on Friday.

Social Studies:  We will continue learning about early explorers and their motivations for visiting the New World.

Diamond Del Visits Next Week!

We are happy to announce that we will be welcoming Diamond Del back to LCEU on Tuesday!  Please be on the lookout for a flyer to come home today!

**Students will be taking rocks and minerals with them that they mine.  There may be a sampling of items available for purchase.  See flyer for details.**

Red, White, and Blue

Veterans Day Celebration

November 9, 2018

Wear red, white, and blue!

Looking Ahead Week of November 5

Looking Ahead

Week of November 5

ELA:  We will continue working with nonfiction reading strategies.

Math:  We will be working with liquid measurement and estimation.

Science:  We will continue learning about the desert and begin learning about the tundra habitat.

Social Studies:  We will begin learning about explorers.