What a quick week! The students were so kind to me as I was feeling a bit under the weather. At one point I was in the middle of teaching math and a sweet boy raised his hand and goes, "Mrs. Davidson, are you feeling alright?" Talk about melting your heart! Sheeesh! I love these kids hard and often times they feel like my own but to feel the love back was something else! :) Thanks for raising such kind-hearted kiddos! Also another bragging moment about this awesome class: I walked out to pick the students up from lunch recess and our class was the only class lined up and completely silent. That called for a celebration! :) So proud of them! They are working together as a team and demonstrating outstanding behavior for our lunch duty teachers. Math: Goodness gracious...we started the dreaded distributive property. We talked about how the distributive property is meant to help us as mathematicians break a part of multiplication problem into two simpler ones. We all agreed by the end that it doesn't appear that way. Thus we named the property the dang distributive property! So much work told solve such a simple problem. BUT! They started getting the hang of it! It was on their quiz that went home. I have a few students who I still need to meet with, so if you haven't seen it, it will be coming home soon. We continued solving multiplication and division story problems. Literacy: Fiction: We are working on making strong predictions. Strong predictions help readers understand a story better. Students have been making predictions in their personal books as well as our read aloud book, Stone Fox. We have been chatting about how strong predictions explain what you think is going to happen BUT also how why you think it is going to happen based on what has been previously read. PHEW! Lots of thinking! Non-fiction Fridays: As mentioned last week, the students spend time in non-fiction text every Friday. Each Friday I teach them a new strategy about how readers can best understand non-fiction. This week we talked about how sometimes authors use maps to help give more detail about the topic being written. Ask your child: What is your prediction about Stone Fox and WHY do you think that is going to happen? Writing; Students are continuing to write their narrative stories, filling their pages with small moment stories. They are eager to share what they have been writing with our class. We are continuing to work on writing stamina as well as produce small moment stories. Science: Students worked on sorting different inherited and acquired traits. They also designed a creature of any sort but needed to label 5 inherited traits their creature had as well as 5 acquired traits. They were SO into this activity. So fun to watch! See the pictures below of their first sketches. Ask your child: What did you creature and what traits did your creature inherit and acquire? CONFERENCES: If you haven't please make sure you have signed up for ONE conference slot! http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0b48a9af2fa7f49-2017 **I also had many students turn in their reading log with VERY minimal reading this week. Please be sure your child is reading 120 minutes (30 min a night) or more a week.**
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Sept. 14th- First Day of Online Learning
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