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October 2009
Volume 1, Issue 1
Mrs. Ratner
Writer’s Workshop
This Month’s Events For our first writing piece, we will be focusing
on a narrative account, which is simply a story.
The children have been participating in a special
ballroom dance program since the middle of We have decided to teach the children how to
September and have been having great success with write their very own fables. I will be using
that. We are also pleased to announce that our ESL standard-based lessons to teach them the
program is up and running. Mrs. Nadel looks forward elements of a fable and will be using the writing
to working with some of your children this school process to complete this task. In the first
year. month of school, we set up the rituals and
Science and Social Studies routines that we expect to be followed during
our writer’s workshop. One key component of
This year Ms. Goldberg will be our science teacher. this is for your child to work independently and
Our first unit in Science focuses on animals and stay focused on their writing. It is hard work
plants in their environment. In September, we and we look forward to seeing the published
learned how living things, or organisms, get pieces.
classified and how they get their energy. This month
students will be learning about animal behaviors, Everyday Mathematics
animal needs and ecosystems. This year in Science, For the month of October, we will be
students will be exposed to a lot of new vocabulary. completing Units 2 and 3 in our Everyday Math
They are creating their own flashcards that will help program. We will cover addition and
them understand these new words. Students take subtraction of multi-digit numbers, displaying
their flashcards home to study. Please assist them data on a bar graph, multiplication and division
in practicing these new vocabulary words. facts, and working with number sentences. A
great deal of what we will be teaching was
In Social Studies, we will be learning about the taught to the children in previous years. Please
Native Americans of New York State. We will discuss be sure to assist your child, if necessary, and
how they lived, the resources they used, traditions encourage him/her to memorize the
and how they were governed. Throughout the year multiplication and division facts. It will only
students will be developing social studies vocabulary help your children to be successful now and in
flashcards. They will be using these cards to the future.
reinforce vocabulary that will be on their 5th grade
State-Wide Social Studies Examination.