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Weekly Update 2.7.17

By In News & Updates On February 7, 2017

Be on the Lookout for…

  • Tuesday Folders will come home today withOUT work samples.
  • Report cards came home last Friday. Please return signed report card envelopes asap.
  • There is an early release day THIS Friday, 2/10. Students will be dismissed at 1:15.
  • Students have taken their 1’s and 2’s  Multiplication Sundae quizzes. Today and Thursday will be 3’s and 4’s. These are timed on a visible stopwatch for student goals only, not countdown as a “it has to be done by this time” manner. Students should be able to answer the 16 questions in under 2 minutes to be considered “fluent”. Students will record their time on the back of their quiz, and their pieces earned on the sundae picture that is housed inside a plastic sheet in their agenda. You can expect a quiz every Tues and Thurs with makeups on Fri for those who do not pass.

This week in Literacy:

Students just finished Storm in the Night, and are starting Paul Bunyan tomorrow. We will continue to focus on character traits. We are able to make lots of connections with our last story, and focusing again on characters, theme, and even figurative language.

Spelling RETESTS on the “100 Words You Need to Know” continue NEXT Friday (taking a week off to give additional time for practice).  This quiz is for GROUP SEVEN (AGAIN) words ONLY! Only students who missed words the first AND second time around need to prepare to retest. If you are not sure, check your child’s agenda for circled words. LOTS of friends struggled with this lost, so please ensure your child has studied and is prepared for Friday!

This week in Math:

Students are wrapping up a long unit on area and perimeter this week with fun review stations and extension activities. We will make a cat and rabbit come to life, and post a tutorial on Google Classroom via Educreations! word- educreations

Area is the space INSIDE something and we teach it 2 ways. A basic quadrilateral is solved by multiplying Length X Width to get Area. Students will also use unit squares to count area, particularly for odd-shaped polygons. Students will even get really crazy with measuring rectilinear area, where they have to do 2 and 3 step problems to solve. Perimeter is the measurement of the sides AROUND a figure. This is pretty easy with rectangles, but can get hard with irregular figures. Please see tutorials and practice with games as needed.

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, graphs, pictographs, bar graphs

A year long “Scope and Sequence” which lays out our math curriculum pacing for the year can be found here

This quarter in Science: We start our Changes unit this week!

2.P.2 Understand properties of solids and liquids and the changes they undergo.
3.P.2 Understand the structure and properties of matter before and after they undergo a change.
3.P.3 Recognize how energy can be transferred from one object to another.

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