Important Dates:
Friday, June 15th- Highland Playground Tuesday, June 18th- LAST DAY! Walking field trip to Main St. Ice Cream |
We completed many cross-curricula activities this week regarding the Olympics. Next week is sure to be even more exciting as we have a morning planned to complete centers with Mrs. Smith's class, and Mrs. Peffer along with Mrs. Lauer will be leading one of the STEM centers! On Thursday we will be completing a break-out-box with clues centered around reading and math in connection to the Olympics! Break-out-boxes are similar to escape rooms, so it will be fun for students to test their stamina and patience through the challenges that give them the codes to unlock the box!
Wednesday is our classroom Valentine's Day party. We will be passing out Valentines if you choose to send your child in with some for the class. A list of students will be coming home with your child to ensure everyone in the class receives a valentine. Health with Mrs. Gallagher will begin next week. With the season of many germs around, please remind your child about proper hand-washing and techniques for staying as healthy as possible. :) Mrs. Agle gave more information on this in this month's Bulldog Buzz. Yearbook orders have gone home. If purchasing a yearbook is a financial burden for your family, but you'd like your child to have one. Please reach out to Mrs. Cantie, our school social worker, as she can assist with funding. [email protected] Remember to check Seesaw for updates and classroom pictures! Reading: This week we completed a few reading passages on the 2018 Winter Olympics and famous Olympians. Students practiced the strategy of going back to the passage and underlining where they find their answer, so it can be proven, vs. just writing down whatever they think the answer is. Math: Unit 4 Subtraction For many students, this is a more difficult unit. We are practicing subtracting using ungrouping and regrouping. The students were taught the following steps to solve: 1 - write and draw the total, the number you are beginning with 2 - look at the ones place, is there more on the floor or more up top? More on the floor - go next door and borrow ten more. More on the top - stop right now, do your subtraction (bringing in the Spice Girl's Stop Right Now tun to reminisce on the 90s). Update your drawing and problem. 3- Repeat step 2 if necessary for the tens place. 4- Solve. We have practiced this skill on workbook pages and whiteboards with problems about the students, they always enjoy when I work their names into word problems. This week we made Linus the Minus Man, a fun craftivity in connection to addition with regrouping. Please practice your student's math facts with them at home. Memorization and understanding of these facts assists immensely in these multi-step problems. The Dollar Store sells flash cards, and there are many sites students can access at home to practice this. Social Studies We read Olympic passages and discussed how many athletes were "failures" at first but didn't let that stop them from continue to pursue their dreams. They tried harder, practiced more, and saw success. Writing In writing students are learning to expand their writing into multi paragraphs. I have taught them to keep the writing they've already done as their first paragraph, then taking each detail paragraph and expanding on it in its own paragraph. We used our journal entries to study how we can do this, and will be practicing it more in the following weeks. We continue to ensure that answers to questions are written in complete sentences.
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