Scholastic Book Orders for January went home this week. If you would like to place an order, please return the form with payment by Friday, January 26th or order online with the classroom code provided on the form. Points earned from Scholastic help provide more books for our classroom library. Thank you!
Class Updates:
In math, the students have been doing an excellent job with adding three digit numbers together! They have been regrouping in both the tens and hundreds places. We will continue to practice this skill, as well as work on problem solving strategies with word problems this week. We will finish the lessons in Chapter 6 and begin reviewing for a test, most likely on Tuesday, January 23.
We read Pinky and Rex in reading to help us get ready for our unit on characters and to review things good fiction readers do, such as read dialogue with expression. The children are beginning to explore what emotions characters are feeling and how those emotions can change throughout a book. We will move more into character traits this week. Our Scholastic News article taught students all about the different traditions people participate in to celebrate the new year.
The children celebrated the winter season by doing a quick write about whether they would rather be a snowman or a snowflake. They had to give five reasons for their opinion. Their writing paired beautifully with snowman art the students created in art class! We also started our informational writing unit, which students will be working on for most of the quarter. The children brainstormed topics they already knew a lot about to prepare for writing an "all about" book. So far, they have learned to fill out graphic organizers to help web out subtopics and facts. The children have also written introductions to their books.
Our study of matter continued this week in science. We focused on the properties of materials being either insulating or conducting. Using Mystery Science, the kids were able to continue to brainstorm solutions for being stuck on an island. This time they had to figure out how to cook food and create "oven mitts" that would allow them to touch hot metal without getting burned. The students tested foil, styrofoam cups, and cotton socks (items that washed up on shore from luggage) to see which had insulating properties. They closed their eyes as their partners gave them either hot or cold bottles of water to see if they could tell the difference and feel the temperature come through.
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