Party in Bag

The children loved all their bags and the goodies inside.  It was so much fun reading all their notes and poems.

I hope you had a wonderful vacation.

Reading

In reading we have continued to read nonfiction texts.  This week we worked on revising our thinking.  We first used our schema and thought about what we already knew about the topic.  Next we wrote down new information about what we learned.  Finally we were able to revise our thinking.  Everyone did a fabulous job!

Google

Mrs. Klipfel taught us how to use Google Drive and Google Docs!  Everyone has their own acount and should be able to log in from home.  It might be fun to practice how to login at home!

Physical Changes of Matter

Last week the students saw the Physical Changes of Matter Program.  They learned many new things about matter and the water cycle.  Please leave one fact you learned!

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Week of January 19th

Please don't forget to send kids to school with snow pants, hat, gloves and boots during these cold winter days.  Please remember to pack a shoes for kids to change into.  

Thank you!

Reading-

We have started to read non-fiction text.  This week we focused on learning about the different text features and how these text features help us to understand what we are reading.  Some text features we learned are: table of contents, photographs, captions, index, glossary, map, diagrams and many more.  Ask your child which text feature helped them the most when reading their non-fiction book.

Math

This week we learned about the metric system.  The students learned about centimeters, meters, kilometers, grams, kilogram, liters. and millimeters.  Ask you child what activity they completed during centers.

Writing

The students are having so much fun writing their opinion on who is the better quarterback, Tom Brady or Peyton Manning.  We rearched the statistic on both players and now students ar busy writing their opinions.  

Week of January 4th

The kids made a transition back to school after the long vacation.

Now that the weather is cold please make sure that your child comes to school prepared to go outside for recess.  They should have boots, snow pants, hat, and gloves.  If they don't have boots and snow pants they will not be allowed on the playground and will have to stay on the hot top.

We have begun writing our own newsletters. Here is one example completed by Evie.

We also had a great time writing New Year's Resolutions.

During our math workshop students created their own snowman with one multiplication fact.  They had to show three other ways to represent their multiplication fact.

Math 12/15

This week in math we are learning to divide with and without reminders.  

Students also learned to divide using mental math strategies.  Ask your child one strategy they can use.

This is one activity the students are completing during our centers this week.  You could even try it at home!

This is the enrichment activity students are completing.  They really had to show some GRIT while solving the problem.