Weekly Update 12.20.16
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On December 20, 2016
Be on the Lookout for…
- Tuesday Folders will come home today. Please review work samples with your child to share successes and struggles.
- Thank you for all the #owlsome and generous gifts this week. I am very grateful and wish you all the happiest holiday season!
- Would you like to receive a weekly update as to what your students have checked out from the library? With so much reading going on- classroom libraries, public libraries, and the school library it can be hard to keep track of what’s what! If you’re interested in this email update, please complete this link. Emails will come out on Saturday mornings.
This week in Literacy:
Students are taking a break from literature to focus on nonfiction text and text features. This week we are reading “Deep Down”, a nonfiction text about extreme places where groups of people live.
Spelling RETESTS on the “100 Words You Need to Know” continue FRIDAY, January 6th. This quiz is for GROUP FOUR words ONLY! Only students who missed words the first time around need to prepare to retest. If you are not sure, check your child’s agenda for circled words.
Students had a BLAST creating OUT OF THIS WORLD (see what I did there;) planet projects on their selected planet. They worked in a group to research a variety of online sources, then used their knowledge to create their choice project. Students made either a Chatterpix, Tellagami, poster, or a song/rap to share their expertise. Please check out their Google Drive for the newest additions! word- techies
This week in Math:
Students are having a blast with data and graphing this week! We are learning how to conduct a survey, and what to with results. The goal is to be saavy with charts, bar graphs, pictographs, and more!
Concepts to review: place value, addition with regrouping, subtraction with borrowing, rounding to the nearest 10 and 100, quadrilateral, parallelogram, trapezoid, rectangle, square, rhombus, arrays, repeated addition, commutative property (flip flop rule), number line, product, distributive (break apart method), associative property
A year long “Scope and Sequence” which lays out our math curriculum pacing for the year can be found here
This quarter in Science: Students are studying objects in the sky and will conduct research and experiments to help understand the following objectives:
| 3.E.1 | Recognize the major components and patterns observed in the Earth/Moon/Sun system. |
| 3.E.2 | Compare the structures of the Earth’s surface using models or three-dimensional diagrams. |
| 4.E.1 | Explain the causes of day and night and phases of the moon. |
