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Classroom News NewsFlash Content: <P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal></P> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>December<BR> <BR> <SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-no-proof: yes">This month students will continue our <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Incredible Stories</em> theme. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Students have read Tomie dePaola’s <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Giant of Barletta</em>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The story shows how following directions to play a little trick helps a town get saved from an invading army.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We focused on reading directions, and deciding what to do first, next, and last.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>During the story, we learned to use some Italian phrases such as Buona notte, Buona fortuna, and grazie.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ask your student what they mean; we used context clues to help us figure them out.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Additionally, w</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">e practiced using new words this week.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Giant, mysterious, pedestal, square, statue, and weakling are words your student should now be familiar with.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">We practiced using strong words this week.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Terrifying, horrifying, heroic, monstrous, creature, colossal, and tremendous, are all words that will reappear throughout our theme.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Please review these words with your student, using the vocabulary page that was sent home.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Students were also formally introduced to verbs this week.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ask them how we chanted, “A verb is an action word, the main attraction word.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-no-proof: yes">In the coming weeks students will have met a new imaginary creature, Hank, a friendly dragon who makes popcorn.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He was one of the main characters in <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Raising Dragons,</em> by Geraldine Nolen.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We will focus on drawing conclusions by using story details</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">In writing students are moving on from narrative essays to expository essays.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We will practice writing <U>thesis </U>statements, and listing reasons to support their main idea.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Our mathematicians began to wrap up chapter six this week. They worked hard at multiplying two, three and four digit numbers by two digit numbers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They also learned how to make tree diagrams to solve problems.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Next week we will take our last multiplication test, and begin learning about data and probability.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Students will be studying five regions of Native Americans: Arctic/Inuit, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Northwest</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Coast</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, Southwest, Plains, and the Eastern Woodlands.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Students will read and learn new information about each group, noting their similarities and differences.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We began with the Arctic/Inuit group last week, and discovered that they invented kayaks and parkas.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Northwest Coast Native Americans created beautiful totem poles and wore clothes made from cedar wood.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Students created their own totem poles for their families, by choosing three animals to represent them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They had to pick which animals matched the characteristics their families had or they wanted them to have.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Next, the students will travel to the Southwest, where they will discover tribes that are known to this day for their beautiful pottery and jewelry.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We will then move on to the Plains and learn a bit about the buffalo, how tepees were made, what material was used to make water bottles (ask them!), how Native Americans recorded events/stories, and more!</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Finally, we will learn about the Eastern Woodlands region.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ask your student to name some of the </SPAN><v:shapetype id=_x0000_t75 coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"><v:stroke joinstyle="miter"></v:stroke><v:formulas><v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></v:f></v:formulas><v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect"></v:path><o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t"></o:lock></v:shapetype><v:shape style="Z-INDEX: -1; POSITION: absolute; TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN-TOP: 41.4pt; WIDTH: 129.75pt; HEIGHT: 145.5pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 300.6pt; LEFT: 0px; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-vertical-relative: text" id=_x0000_s1026 type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="12735 111 9489 334 4994 1336 4994 1893 4495 2115 2622 3563 1249 5456 499 7237 125 9019 125 10800 499 12581 1249 14363 499 19707 -125 21043 0 21489 5618 21489 12985 21489 19852 21489 20851 21266 19852 19707 19228 17926 19228 16144 20601 14474 20601 14363 21350 12581 21600 10800 21600 8573 21350 7237 20601 5456 19228 3674 16980 1893 14483 557 13360 111 12735 111"><v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\DOBRAD~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image001.wmz" o:title="MCj03967420000%5b1%5d"></v:imagedata><w:wrap type="tight" side="left"></w:wrap></v:shape><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">similarities between groups.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal></SPAN></P> </SPAN></DIV> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV> Email From Name: From Email Address: noreply@TeacherWeb.com The from email address is set to improve delivery rates to your subscribers. 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