Who's Who At Altara!

We are continuing to learn about people who have made a difference in the world through biography reading.  Last week we read about Snowflake Bentley, and Martin Luther King.  Snowflake Bentley had a passion for learning, and nature, and discovered that no two snowflakes are alike.  He spent his whole life preserving their beauty and uniqueness.  You can see all of his art in his book, Snow Crystals.  Martin Luther King believed in dreams.  He spent a good portion of his life trying to create equality for everyone.  We read the book, Martin's Big Words together and discovered that it is using peaceful words and not powerful demonstrations that can make important changes in our world.
There is so much for each of us to learn from history and the lives of people who have impacted our world.  We are all getting excited to share what we are learning from our own look at biographies.  Just a reminder that biography book report projects are due January 30.  Projects can be turned in for display anytime before 1/30.  Great Job, students!

We took a trip to the library and guess who just happened to be hanging out by the biographies!

This week in Reading Street we will be reading a story about James Naismith, The Man Who Invented Basketball.  Did you know basketball started by shooting balls into peach baskets? The question we will be answering this week is how do talents make someone unique?
Our spelling pattern this week is irregular plurals (ex: wolf-wolves).
We will be focusing on generalizing, and summarizing for our comprehension studies.  Using what I know, and what I am learning I can make statements using key words: most of the time, most, all, few, etc. to make a generalized statement.  When I summarize a text can I do that in 1-2 sentences?  Can I do it in 20 words? Summarizing is a brief statement focusing on the most important events or details.
We are beginning math this week with a look at division meanings and how  that connects to multiplication.  We are also working hard to pass off multiplication timed drills in anticipation of our Sundae party celebration after spring break.  Please keep practicing at least 5 minutes every day to work on fluency.  
We held our classroom spelling bee last Friday and everyone did a great job of participating!  Congratulations to Lauren Shirley, Brianna Rees, and Brooklyn Davis who will be moving on to the school spelling bee!  Good luck girls!