November

This past month, the girls applied their multiplication skills to real world applications as Garden Designers. In Science, the students combined a technology investigation with nonfiction science facts and incorporated their Wordly Wise words to produce a nonfiction book about hibernation and migration. This month, the students will use technology research to create their own power points about animal adaptations. The students also used their research skills to create travel brochures about New York State for a Social Studies project.

In November we will begin a Math unit on Division, a Science unit on Growth and Development, and a Social Studies unit on the first people in New York State. For our literature, we will begin reading Sign of the Beaver as a class novel; independently, the girls will be reading a non-fiction history book.

Sign of the Beaver is a classic novel in which the hero undertakes a quest and arrives at a new and more mature place. Elizabeth George Speare follows a traditional literary pattern while working with her own unique style and telling her own compelling story. This novel will help the students develop critical thinking skills as we discuss the novel in terms of literary connections with self, texts, and the world.

For additional practice:

online grammar practice - eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/quizzes/

division practice - coolmath4kids.com/long-division/index.html