I apologize for not updating you all last week. I was glued to a Kleenex box and cup of tea in hand all weekend! Math: We started learning about division. It is still a rather foreign concept to most students but we will get there! Some of them were amazed at what the division sign looked like! Students practiced drawing pictures to help them solve division problems. They also began to see how division and multiplication are fact families. We will continue solving multiplication and division problems. See the picture to help you understand how we are teaching both concepts. Literacy: We are continuing to work on strategies that help us understand what we are reading. Students learned about inferences this week. They also learned about the importance of checking for comprehension at the end of each chapter by asking themselves a few questions: 1.) Who is in this part? 2.) Where is the character? 3.) What is the character doing? I recommend you having your child answer these questions when they are finished with their at home reading. If they have any difficulty answering them, it is usually an indicator the book they are reading is too difficult. Writing: The past two weeks students generated a variety of stories. They started a new story each day so that they would have a selection of stories to choose from to improve in the future. Narratives can be a tough one for students but they are powering through them and filling their pages with stories! They were very eager to share theirs with the class this past week. So cute to watch, too!
Science: We are working on the central idea: Heredity and environment influence appearance and behavior. As a class we dissected the central idea to put it in our own words. We moved from looking at the inherited traits and acquired traits of people to plants. Students participated in a mystery science inquiry activity where they learned how another flower produces more flowers. A student in our class asked a follow up question about how do sunflowers produce more sunflowers if they have seeds in the middle of them. A very interesting question! So, we investigated. Students brought sunflowers, I gave them books, and we figured it out! We had flower petals all over the classroom, but we had a lot of fun!
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Sept. 14th- First Day of Online Learning
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