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• Thank you to all of the parents who came for Report Card pick-up on Wednesday.  It was wonderful having a few moments to check in with each other.
• The next book response has been assigned.  Students will be creating a New Book Jacket for the book they have read independently.  We went over the parts of a book jacket extensively in class and reviewed the need to always write in our own words.  It is never okay to copy directly from another source and make it seem like it is our own writing.  The description of the project and grading rubric were sent home on Thursday, November 13.  The project is due Thursday, December 11.
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READING

As I started to do a quick review of the First Thanksgiving, I realized we had a lot of missing pieces.  We spent the two days last week learning about the first Harvest Feast and took time to differentiate the facts from the myths.  We worked with a cool interactive website that help us to research information as a true historian does http://www.plimoth.org/education/olc/index_js2.html .  Since we spent our time on that, we did not get to the intended read aloud.

Read Aloud:  How Many Days to America: A Thanksgiving Story, by Eve Bunting

Reader Response:  Students will compare the challenges the characters faced in this story to the challenges of the Pilgrims who arrived in the 1600s.

Read Aloud:  Little Wolf’s Book of Badness, by Ian Whybrow

Reader Response:  Keeping thinking notes and providing evidence for our thinking

Guided Reading Groups Begin

Students will be reading one of the following books with me in a small group:  26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie DePaolo, Tales of the Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis.  Students will meet with me a couple of times a week for discussions and will read on their own to prepare for each meeting. More details to come next week.

MATH

Game:  Division Arrays to further explore the relationship between multiplication and division

**Lesson 3.7 Finding Air Distances (journal page 65)
**Lesson 3.8 A Guide for Solving Number Stories (journal page 66-68)
**Lesson 3.9  True/False Number Sentences (journal pages69-70)
**Lesson 3.10 Parenthesis in Number Sentences (journal pages 71-72)

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