In the Month of November

Afternoon Y'all! I can't believe it is already November! The year is quickly passing us by. I hope everyone had a fun filled Halloween. Here is the academic overview for the month: Math- We will be collecting, organizing, and interpreting bar graphs next week. Then we will dive into division (2 digit by 1 digit, 3 digit by 1 digit). Rounding will make a return during division. Practice, Practice, Practice those facts! Texas History- How exciting we have had our first Early Texan sighting in the book! Today we read about the Caddo and Karankawa Indains and compared their cultures and lifestyles. Tomorrow and the days ahead we will conitnue with the contributions made by individual leaders, territorial expansions which lead into misunderstandings and reactionary behaviors, and economic motivations that influenced settlement patterns. Wow, I think we might have already had some conflicts due to territorial expansions within the classroom! Sometimes the children don't realize their territorial expansion of their desk onto other's territory (desk) causes some conflicts. Science- We will wrap up weather this week and then start landforms. We will undertsand that landforms are caused by many different effects such as weathering, erosion, and deposition. Then we will move into learning about soil, natural resources, fossil fuels, and conservation. Language Arts- Read! Read! Read! Book clubs will start this month. Reading comprehension skills will be continued and practiced throughout the book clubs. The rotation of Wordly Wise and Spelling will conintue. I thought their first narrative was well done. In Grammar, we will continue with verbs.