This Friday is a half day of school with an 11:50 dismissal. Please make sure your child knows how they will be going home on that day. Lunch will not be served on Friday.
Class Updates:
In math, we spent the week practicing how to write coordinate pairs for points on a grid. We also spent several days learning about three dimensional solid figures, such as cubes, triangular prisms, and cones. Students played a game where they had to guess the figure hidden in a bag based on clues describing the figure's attributes, including the number of faces, edges, and vertices a figure has. Children also had a chance to fold their own solid shapes using paper templates.
We continued our study of compare and contrast this week by looking at similarities and differences in point of view when two different authors tell the same story. We read several versions of the Three Little Pigs to see how perspective and point of view can change based on who is narrating the story. As you can imagine, the pigs and the wolf have very different points of view! We also spent part of the week getting ready for Read Across America Week. Classrooms throughout the school are decorating their doors to represent their favorite books. Our class did Sideways Stories from Wayside School. Each student did a sketch of one of the characters in the books and together we designed our door that included the 30 story Wayside School building.
In writing, we spent the week working on the third chapter of our books, which is a narrative form of informational writing. Students wrote either a journal entry or a letter telling the story of a small moment related to their book's topic. We also started our fourth chapters, which will be persuasive essays about the importance of the topics they have been researching. Chapter four will also serve as the conclusion for the books. This week, students will need to be finished with the rough drafts of all four chapters and will be working on revising, editing, and selecting text features to add to their books. Some work at home may be required if your child is behind in order to keep on pace to publish our books before spring break.
Students had a fun week in science as they continued to build circuits. This time, groups made both series and parallel circuits, added a second light bulb to their circuits, and incorporated switches to open and close their circuits. The children also made mini-books about current electricity. At the end of the week we learned about magnets. Children should be studying their science vocabulary words nightly for a quiz on Thursday.
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