Reading- This week our focus is drawing conclusions by inferring. We worked on this skill while reading two stories out of our Rigby reading series. Next week our focus will be using illustrations and other text features to help us better understand a passage. We will also be giving our quarter 3 reading assessment. This assessment is a district wide assessment but will not count towards your student’s final reading grade. We plan to use this assessment to help guide our instruction and prepare for the remainder of the year.

Writing- This week your student wrote an alternate ending to a fantasy story as well as a journal entry about visiting another planet. Later this week, they will choose one of those pieces to publish and turn in for a grade. Next week we will continue our work on developing our literary analysis (comparing and contrasting).

Grammar- This week is a review week; we are working on editing pieces of a passage. Next week we will focus on Capitalizing book titles.

Math- We are continuing to work on area and perimeter. There will be no new skills taught this week and most of next week. Instead we will be reviewing the skills we have already taught. By the end of next week we will move on two our final two skills in this unit (creating rectangles with same area and different perimeters and rectangles with same perimeters with different areas.) Our tentative date for the area and perimeter test is March 15.

Social Studies- We have been researching different jobs. Next week we will continue our conversation on how jobs have changed in America. We will specifically discuss the assembly line and factories.