Weekly Crandall Chronicle

What's Happening This Week

Spelling: Our spelling pattern this week involves consonant blends.  
Reading: This week we are focusing on the skill of categorizing facts by topic and describing details found in the text. Our vocabulary strategy focuses on making analogies.
Writing: We are continuing to focus on writing personal narratives. The students are practicing using strong verbs in their writing to show specific actions. The new writing words for November will be sent home on Monday. There will be a cumulative test at the end of the month, right before Thanksgiving break.   
Grammar: Our focus is identifying identifying and correctly writing possessive nouns.
Math: We began our new math unit on multiplication and division.      
Science: We are wrapping up our unit on Habitats. Students will bring home a review guide on Wednesday. The Habitats unit test will be on Friday, November 8th.  

Weekly Reminders 

* Please continue to check your child's assignment notebook regularly. 
* Since the temperature inside and outdoors continues to fluctuate, please send your child with layers!    

Study Tip

This past Friday, students were introduced to two incredible online resources! 

The first one is Xtramath.org, which provides students with extra practice with their math facts. Please look for the informational letter that your child is bringing home on Monday. 

Each student now has his or her own blog. These blogs are though the website Kidblog.org, and are linked to our class blog. Students will now be able to document their own learning and publish it right to the web for you and others to see! We practiced writing new posts, and each student briefly shared his or her thoughts about Halloween. In the near future we will be posting the videos that students took while dissecting the owl pellets during science. Commenting on your child's post is a great way to provide him or her feedback about their learning, so please visit your child's blog anytime a post is made!