I can't believe how cold it has gotten recently! Luckily, our room is always super warm so no matter how cold it is outside, we have remained warm inside classroom :) Have a look at what we did this week!
Things To Note:
As always, thanks for all your support and all you do for your kiddos at home! I hope you all stay warm this weekend!
- I/E: We started reading our new novel, "Holes." This time, are focusing on comprehension questions to help us in pulling evidence from the text when answering questions. Students have been reading certain chapters on their own and them coming back to whole group discussion about what was read. Additionally, this week students needed to create a picture of a "yellow-spotted lizard" based on the descriptive details in the text. So far, we are really liking this new novel!
- ELA:
- Phonics/Spelling: Consonant + le words (e.g. tumble, shuffle, crumble)
- Vocabulary Strategy: Greek & Latin Roots
- Skill: Main Idea & Key Details
- Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions
- Genre: Expository Text
- Greek/Latin Root Word: MAL, MALE = bad; abnormal
- Grammar: Main and Helping Verbs, Participles and Perfect Tenses
- Math: Topic 5 dealing with division is what we started off with this week! So far, we have been using our background knowledge of multiplication to help make the connection to division. Students have been working on using their basic multiplication facts to help them when dividing larger numbers (e.g. 36,000 divided by 60 uses the basic fact of 36 divided by 6 or 6 x 6 = 36, so 36,000 divided by 60 = 600). Estimating quotients is another concept we worked on this week as well. Continue to work with your child at home with their multiplication facts in order to help support their understanding of division this topic.
- Social Studies: After what seems like forever, we finally finished taking our research notes on what life was like for a colonist on the Mayflower and once arriving in North America! The objective for students was to be able to write a blog post about life from the perspective of a colonist as either an adult or child. In their "blog," students needed to include at least 3 details from each research resource and 6 historical facts. While including these elements, students were able to be creative in how they approached this assessment. Many chose alternate names and used words they thought might have been common back then (e.g. 'twas). It has been fun to how they were able to demonstrate their understanding of this past chapter through a creative outlet.
- Science: To be honest, with it being a short week and primarily focusing on Social Studies, we didn't get to much Science. Students were able to finish their animal and habitat research with their groups, which I will be putting in as a grade for this topic.
Things To Note:
- Valentine's Day: We will be having a Valentine's Day party on Thursday, February 14th. With that said, if you would like to help in any way, please let me know :) I haven't started any planning but could also use the help and suggestions!
- Hooper Start Times 2019-2020: As you all should have received already, a letter went out detailing the changes for the proposed new Hooper start and end times. The proposed new start and end time for Hooper would be 9:00-3:40 (vs. the current 8:45-3:25). If you have any opinions on this and how it might impact your child and/or family, please be sure to make your voice heard at the calendar committee meetings that both staff and parents can be a part of.
As always, thanks for all your support and all you do for your kiddos at home! I hope you all stay warm this weekend!