things that are keeping us busy for the following week

Here are some things we are focusing on in class for the next week. Please reinforce these ideas at home and ask questions about what we done in class on the subject as well.

* Author's study on Patricia Polacco. Focusing on genre (realistic fiction), main idea, supporting detail, main character, and setting.

* Nouns - common and proper. Nouns in the subject, verbs in the predicate. Plurals -s or -es or dropping the y and adding ies.

* Rounding to the nearest 10's, 100's and 1000's.

* Finding the number that comes before, in between, and after. ( For some reason, my kids are having a rough time mastering this. They just can't get how to solve for the answer. Please especially work with your kids at home with this if you can)

* Ask about their bean projects and pen pal letters.

* We are focusing on writing in the fantasy genre (something that could never happen). Absolutely hilarious writings! Ask about them.

* Genre:

Fiction - Something that is not real.

Non Fiction - Something that is real and could absolutely happen.