Dear Parents,
This week we will have our first quiz in Social Studies on Thursday, 8/25. Students will bring home their journals to study tonight, Tuesday, and Wednesday - please help them remember to bring them back to school the next day because we will be using them in class as we review. Your students need to know the vocabulary (community, citizen, democracy, volunteer, election, tax), the three branches of government at each level and the titles within the branches, why we have separation of powers, and that we got the idea of democracy from ancient Greece so we have columns on our government buildings to honor them.
In Reading we will be starting our classroom rotations with choiceboards where the kids have some class required activities and some choices in activities. Please help your child remember to write down what they read each night on their log. This Friday will be the first homework grade your child will receive for the 3 weeks of reading he/she has done.
We also will be beginning our first graded piece of narrative writing. In class we have been working on strategies for choosing a topic (person or place that is important to you), choosing an interesting hook, writing with descriptive words and powerful verbs, adding dialogue, transitioning with "A little later" or "After that", and using our classroom dictionaries, thesauruses, and highlighters to help edit their work As we have read books in class ("Stone Fox", "Chrysanthemum", "Thank You, Mr. Falker", "Enemy Pie", and "Ralph S. Mouse"), we have discussed the literary strategies they use and we refer back to those during Writing class.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns at magisgraves@fultonschools.org
If you are able to contribute some snacks to our class snack cabinet for days some of our kiddos forget their snack. we would appreciate Goldfish, pretzals, animal crackers, etc. Thanks so much for your support!
Mrs. M-G
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