Weekly Update 10/12/19

We had a fantastic field trip to the Magic House! Students were able to try out what it's like to work at a job in a community, get paid, and spending their paychecks on both wants and needs. They also worked in groups to plan a family budget. This was a wonderful preview to a social studies unit on economics that will take place later this year. Thank you to all of the parent volunteers who helped with the field trip!

In math, we have completed Chapter 2, and will be starting Chapter 5 on place value beginning next week. To help review concepts about arrays and urban communities, the children did a cross-curricular project to create "urban arrays" on skyscrapers. Each child designed an array to create the windows on their buildings. They also wrote both a repeated addition sentence and a multiplication sentence to match their array.

Children are working on asking questions about the texts they read in their reading groups. They are questioning before, during, and after their reading to help monitor their comprehension of the stories. In writing, students have each selected one of their personal narrative drafts to publish. We will be publishing over the next few days to get ready to celebrate the end of our narrative unit.

Our study of maps has continued with students learning about the difference between physical and political maps. We reviewed the continents and oceans, as well as a variety of other landforms and bodies of water. With the help of Mrs. Levine, the children also completed a Seesaw activity to help them practice giving directions on a map.