Posted by kavery508 | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on March 19, 2018
Literacy Night is coming on Friday, April 6th! This annual school event features games, books, local authors, food, and more. A favorite feature of this event is the reading of original pieces by student authors. I encourage any student from our class to participate.
If your child wishes to read his/her writing (in classrooms with a group of about 9 other students), here’s what to do: 1. Select a piece of writing from home or school this year (think of the great work they’ve done with Opinion, Informative, and Narrative writing, or something they’ve worked on at home). 2. Let me know this week that you will be participating. You’ll be sent a permission form to be filled out and returned no later than March 28. This will be followed by a confirmation letter with room assignment and time. 3. Come and celebrate! Students begin presenting at 6:00 PM.
In our final trimester, students will engage in short, skills-based math units on topics such as telling time, measuring in inches/feet, graphing, and more. We begin by learning fractions: what they are; how to name them; how to compare them, and how to add fractions with similar denominators. What’s important, according to the Common Core, is that students gain an understanding of what fractions mean and become fluent using halves, thirds, and fourths. Consider the example below. Notice how it encourages students to think about what fractions are and about their relative sizes. This picture and many more can be found in the Student Book accessible via the Math in Focus link above (Book B; Chapter 12). As always, hit me with any questions!
What an amazing job students have done in science! After collecting temperature data from the past month that is valid and reliable, they organized it in tables and created bar graphs (try it yourself with any data you like–it’s really cool!http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/). This week they will analyze the data to look for trends and anomalies; aggregate the data to answer specific questions; and draw conclusions about temperature in winter, 2018. Wow!
Welcome Spring…
