Happy New Year and welcome back!
READING
Because of Winn-Dixie – A classic tale by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo, America’s beloved storyteller. One summer’s day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries – and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It’s because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it’s because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie. Featuring a new cover illustration by E. B. Lewis and an excerpt of Kate DiCamillo’s newest novel, Raymie Nightingale.
We’re staring a new class novel! YIPPEE! We’ll be covering about 5 chapters per week and then completing a quiz following.
Some of the objectives that we will be covering while reading are:
- Offer observations, make connections, react, speculate, interpret, and raise questions in response to text
- Identify and discuss book themes, characters, plots, and settings
- Connect their experiences with those of the author and/or with characters from the books
- Support predictions, interpretations, conclusions, etc. with examples from text
- Practice key reading skills and strategies (cause-and-effect, problem/solution, compare-and-contrast, summarizing, etc.)
- Monitor their own comprehension
WRITING
We’ll be starting to learn about Opinion Writing this term. We’ll begin with a pre-assessment based on their favourite holiday.
SOCIAL STUDIES
- Discover the different cultures that help to influence us in the Caribbean.
NUMERACY
The first couple of days back we will be reviewing number sense and computation (multiplication and division)
The following week will be beginning fractions! We will learn how to recognize fraction problems and equivalent fractions.
SCIENCE
We will finish working on our in-class project of adaptations and behavior for a fictional animal. This is due Thursday 10th! Then understanding parts of an ecosystem and what we have here in Cayman.