October 1st to 5th
Reading The Waterfall
This week we read our last story in our “Off to Adventure” theme.
The Waterfall, by Jonathan London, is a realistic fiction story. A family’s
backpacking adventure in the mountains leads to the discovery of an amazing
waterfall- and to an exhilarating climb to the top of it. The strategy focus in
this story is predicting and inferring. Students will have a chance to make
predictions and inferences throughout the story. Our comprehension skill for
this story is cause and effect. We will also work on how to thoroughly answer BCRs.
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Math Unit 2: Algebra, Addition, and Subtraction Number Sense
This week we continued Unit 2: Algebra, Addition, and Subtraction Number Sense.
We learned to add using tens, how to estimate sums in four ways (front-end,
compatible numbers, hundreds, and tens), overestimates and underestimates,
using tens to subtract, and counting on to subtract.
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Social Studies What is a Community?
This week in social studies we labeled continents (and how to correctly spell them),
hemispheres, North and South Poles, and the equator on a world map. Students
also were able to describe the role of local government and citizens in making and
enforcing laws. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Happy birthday to our October birthday: Henna Fraiman (25th)!
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contact me with any questions or concerns through this page or at
bmarsh@bcps.org. My students are my priority, and I will do everything
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to do every day in my class is be a good listener, to guide instruction
rather than lecture, and be willing to use varied approaches to foster
learning. I also strongly believe in establishing and maintaining good
communication with parents. This will foster a positive learning
atmosphere in the classroom and will enhance instruction.