Weekly Updates and Reminders:
- Parent/Teacher Conferences are Thursday, December 14th. It is also a half day of school for your child.
- A note went home today about our Holiday Celebration. We will have a Pajama and Pancake breakfast, along with a book exchange and a craft on Thursday, December 21. We will be contacting those parents who volunteered to help out. Look for an email this week.
- There will be no school on Friday, December 22-Tuesday, January 2 due to the Holiday break. School will resume on Wednesday, January 3.
- The weather was so nice last week, students enjoyed a fun afternoon recess.
- If your child has one of these images stapled to their daily planner, it is just our way to quickly communicate to you that your child needs a specific winter item for recess. On Mondays students do go outside for one hour. As temperatures get colder, they will need winter gear to stay warm and enjoy recess with their friends.
Math:
Embedded in our math curriculum and within each unit is something called, Exploration. Exploration extends a mathematical topic, providing students with hands-on activities. This particular exploration's focus was exploring bar graphs, area, and partitioning rectangles. Students explored different ways to measure area, partition rectangles and represent data on a scaled bar graph. Student worked alongside their peers to complete the activities.
Embedded in our math curriculum and within each unit is something called, Exploration. Exploration extends a mathematical topic, providing students with hands-on activities. This particular exploration's focus was exploring bar graphs, area, and partitioning rectangles. Students explored different ways to measure area, partition rectangles and represent data on a scaled bar graph. Student worked alongside their peers to complete the activities.
Social Studies:
We have begun Unit 2: Michigan Economy. Students enjoy this unit because we look at it from the perspective of owning a pizzeria! Students will learn about the natural resources needed to make a pizza that are grown right here in Michigan, as well as the geographic location of certain crops, business incentives, reasons for certain locations of businesses, and opportunity costs, to name a few concepts for this unit.
Science:
Writing:
This week we are publishing our Personal Narrative stories. The students have worked hard on their final writing pieces and are excited to share them with the class.
On Wednesday, we will begin our new Informational Writing Unit. The students will brainstorm various topics that they are experts on and begin to write all that they know. We will be taking a close look at a lot of Informational books to learn about the structure and organization that goes into informational writing.
We will begin to review the water unit this week and take the unit test next Monday. I will send home a study guide by the end of the week.
This Week in Word Study and Grammar:
Writing:
This week we are publishing our Personal Narrative stories. The students have worked hard on their final writing pieces and are excited to share them with the class.
On Wednesday, we will begin our new Informational Writing Unit. The students will brainstorm various topics that they are experts on and begin to write all that they know. We will be taking a close look at a lot of Informational books to learn about the structure and organization that goes into informational writing.
Reading:
Today (Monday) we had our Because of Winn Dixie celebration. We watched the movie and enjoyed rootbeer floats. The students had fun comparing the movie to the book.
This week we will be continuing with our new read aloud Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel. We are nearing the end of our Character Studies unit. We will be closely following the character Dyamonde and how she responds to struggles and changes throughout the story. We will then spend time comparing and contrasting Dyamonde to Opal in Because of Winn Dixie.
This week we will be continuing with our new read aloud Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel. We are nearing the end of our Character Studies unit. We will be closely following the character Dyamonde and how she responds to struggles and changes throughout the story. We will then spend time comparing and contrasting Dyamonde to Opal in Because of Winn Dixie.
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