Posted by kavery508 | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on March 16, 2015
Luck o’ the Irish? There’s just 13 weeks to go! We’ll start this one by flexing our map skills as we explore directionality and landforms related to the Emerald Isle, share Irish folk tales and music, and more. For some fun sharing of Irish culture, check out: http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/1Kids/2Index.html
Thank you for keeping our classroom stocked with health items this winter. We are currently in need of boxes of Kleenex (lots!) to get us through the rest of this record-breaking winter and into spring.
We continue our focus on grammar and English language skills by learning about pronouns (direct/indirect/possessive) and plural nouns, with a specific focus on spelling changes (puppy/puppies).
As the second trimester of school comes to an end, students will also be taking reading tests (DRAs) and a district-wide writing assessment that tests students’ abilities with focus, organization, details and English conventions (punctuation, spelling) while producing a piece of informative writing. Quizzes and tests will also be given to measure students’ progress with map skills (natural/cultural features; directionality; countries vs. continents; oceans and continents; finding places on maps) and science concepts related to weather.
This week’s math focus is on accurately measuring in cm starting at zero on a ruler, or from any other number (e.g. developing a sense of length in cm). The latter is shown in this picture from the MIF Student Book. Notice how length can be determined and compared in more than one way.
We will also compare lengths and learn to calculate the difference between them, and solve real-world problems about lengths and distance using bar models and diagrams. Look at this example from the Student Book. What pictures/diagrams (including bar models) would help to model the problem? What numbers and operations are involved?
