Last week and the few days this week were spent finishing some units, almost finishing others, and starting some new ones as well! Math: In math, we are getting close to finishing our first introduction unit to multiplication and division. Last week we worked on the commutative property and this week on the distributive property. Commutative Property Example: 3 x 5 = 5 x 3 Distributive Property Example: 8 x 5 = (3 x 5) + (5 x 5) 8 x 5 = 15 + 25 8 x 5 = 40 A graded quiz (Topic E) will be coming home next week! Keep your eyes out for it in your child's homework folder. We also started Math Labs in our class. Parents flooded our classroom and put the students into different groups. Students spend about 20 minutes working on math problems at their current math level. Some are working on single-digit addition/subtraction, double-digit addition/subtraction, triple-digit addition/subtraction, and multiplication. We also started Rocket Math. Students are taking a multiplication facts test EVERY day. They get one minute to reach their goal. Students shouldn't have to take the same test for more than a few days if they are practicing at home regularly. Please, please, please ensure the are practicing nightly. It is essential they know these facts fluently. Reading: Last week we finished our Unit: Building Our Reading Lives. We learned about summaries, checking for comprehension, inferencing, and how to tackle challenging words. This week we started our Mystery Unit. Students entered class on Monday with caution tape on the door and caution tape surrounding our bench. The students noticed the pillows had gone missing. Students participated in a scavenger hunt throughout the school to get them back. Students also had the opportunity to study their fingerprints. Both activities were designed to get students excited about reading mysteries! Writing: Students chose one of their narrative, small moment stories from their collection they had started over the past few weeks. Students spent a couple days illustrating the beginning, middle, and end, where they included thoughts bubbles, characters talking, and details such as what they heard, smelled, saw, and felt. Students used those pictures to help them write their flash draft. Next, students are going to learn different strategies to improve their writing! Science: As mentioned in the email last week, we had a genetic scientist visit our classroom to introduce what DNA is to our students and how it makes up "Who We Are" (our PYP Unit). Students had the opportunity to create their own DNA model. They LOVED this activity. We are so fortunate! Students also did an apple tasting activity. Students tasted four different types of apples and recorded whether the apple was very sweet, sweet, sour, or very sour. Students learned how apples can be created to make sweeter apples through selection. Students are working on their final project for the our PYP unit: Who We Are. They are creating their own creature that needs to inherits 3-5 traits from its parents as well as acquiring 3-5 traits. A couple pictures from Exploration Friday! Students engaging in the game Apples to Apples where they are working on their communication skills and other students expressing their creativity through art.
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Sept. 14th- First Day of Online Learning
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