Mr. Blanc's Class

Updates I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving Break! Remember, there won't be any school for students on Monday, 11/28. Reading Students were sent home with a Long Weekend Reading Log before Thanksgiving Break. Any student who records at least four hours of reading over the break will get on the classroom Wall of Fame. In addition, the student who records the most hours read will get on the Wall of Fame twice. Idiom of the Week : Leave the door open Writing We are continuing our "about me" informational writing. Students are working on writing complete paragraphs that include a main idea, key details, elaboration of key details, and concluding sentences. After Thanksgiving break, we'll work on an introduction paragraph, concluding paragraph, and transitions to connect our paragraphs. Math When we get back to school on Tuesday, 11/29, we will be on module 3, lesson 22. This will bring us to the study of divisibility, composite, and prime numbers. This w...

Updates We have two days of school next week because of Thanksgiving Break. Students will take a vocab test on Tuesday, 11/22, but will not be given new words that day. Their next set of new words will be assigned on Tuesday, 11/29. Writing Our writing focus has now shifted from narrative to informational. We're working on writing paragraphs that include a main idea, supporting details about the main idea, explanations of the details, and a concluding sentence. We are practicing these paragraphs by writing about a topic we know very well, ourselves. Idiom of the Week: cost an arm and a leg Math Next week we will continue our study of division. Similar to multiplication, they are learning different strategies to solve division problems. We will continue with module 3, lesson 20 on Monday.  Inquiry We have done brief overviews of many historical migrations during our inquiry time. We plan to finish the historical overviews next week. Once they are complete, the students...

Updates There were no new vocabulary words sent home on Tuesday, 11/8. Students will get their next set of new words on Tuesday, 11/15. Also, students will be sent home with an optional Long Weekend Reading Log. The student who records the most minutes read over the long weekend, will get on the classroom Wall of Fame.  Math Students were sent home with their scored Mid Module 3 Assessment on Wednesday, 11/9. We went over the answers in class, but check with your student and see if there is anything they need an extra explanation on. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns after looking at your child's test. So far in Module 3 we have focused on multiplication, as we move to the second half of the module we will begin our study of division. Writing We finished up our narrative final drafts on Wednesday, 11/9. If your student hasn't completed their narrative final draft you will receive an email from me. Students who didn't complete their final draft are ex...

Updates Next week will be a short one as there will be no school for students on either Thursday, 11/10 or Friday 11/11. Students will be sent home with a "Long Weekend Reading Log". The student who records the most minutes read over the weekend will get on the Wall of Fame, which, as I'm sure you've heard, is a pretty big deal in our class. Math Students will take the Mid Module 3 assessment on Wednesday, 11/9. You can help your student prepare for the test by going over the practice test with them on Tuesday evening. Also, check in with them and ask them which of the different multiplication strategies we have learned is their favorite. Reading  We are continuing our study of nonfiction reading. So far we've studied the different text structures of nonfiction texts and learned that if we can identify the type of text structure, it can help us figure out the most important information from the text. The common text structures we've learned about are ...

Thanks to the parent volunteers who made our Halloween party so much fun! Enjoy the pictures!