Important Dates Preview Night on Wednesday from 5:15-6:30PM is for you too. Cindi DiIorio, Middle School Division Head, will be in attendance to tell you all of the exciting things that are happening in Middle School. I know you will be impressed. We hope to see all of you there. RFA PARENT COFFEE: Tuesday, January 24 at 8:15AM, right after drop off It is time to begin to think about summer. DISCOVERY UNLIMITED AND CAMP information is on our website at roycemoreschool.org/summer LA Work continues in our reading small groups. Students are writing responses to chapters and working on their paragraph writing skills and being able to use quotes from the book to support a response. They are also focusing on character analysis. Social Studies Much of the work we are doing is closely tied to Language Arts. We are reading lots of nonfiction, and asking questions. By asking questions, the focus is on comprehension. There are many types of questions we ask while reading. The students take the time to identify which type of questions they have and then we work on answering them. The types are questions are: 1. Vocabulary 2. Answers we find in the text 3. Answers we find in the world 4. Answers that come from your brain using clues from the text (inference) 5. Never answered (wonderings) Last week we read about the Native Americans in Illinois and the trading forts of the French, Dutch and English. The students participated in a Trade Rendevous simulation. This week will focus on the beginnings of Chicago. All family chronology charts should be complete and at school. We will be creating our family maps this week. I will also assign the family map this week. Frances came in this week to share the Latino experience in Chicago. It was very informative. the kids had lots of great questions and had some strong opinions! Math Continue to work on long division and should be doing the end of unit test by the end of the week.
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