Welcome to Room 5!  

The students of Room 5 have been building a classroom community by participating in a morning meeting every morning.  During the meeting, they greet each other and share about themselves twice a week.

Every week we read a new story.  Several stories focus on one theme.  We work on vocabulary, spelling words, phonics, and comprehension skills throughout the week.  I also meet with small groups reading books on their levels several times a week.  D.E.A.R. time is another part of reading, which stands for Drop Everything And Read.

 Writing takes place for about 30 minutes a day.  Sometimes students write informally about a given topic in their journal or sometimes they write about a topic of their choice.  About every other week, students engage in the formal writing process involving prewriting, drafting, editing, and publishing. 

In social studies we have been learning about communities, people, and places.  We will also learn about our country and important people in history among other topics.

 When students are not learning a social studies unit, then we are learning a science unit and vice versa.  Science topics consist of weather, mammals, the rainforest, mammals, etc.

HOMEWORK