Week 16

 Dear Parents, 

       We had another fun week of learning despite the full moon, Lunar Eclipse and the excitement about the upcoming break. I hope you enjoyed their special keepsake Thankful Acrostic Poem we made!

        In math we looked at division as repeated subtraction. We also had a baggie of chocolate chip cookies ( the paper kind) to practice dividing them up into equal groups depending on how many friends were to share them. We took our assessment on Thursday. 

         In writing we continued on with our expository explain why paper. We used color coding and three different graphic organizers to plan and write this paper. The children are getting better at revising and adding interesting words as well as sensory details. We will continue finishing up some of these after break. ( Most were finished and enjoyed sharing on Friday.

          In reading this week we focused on Thanksgiving stories both fiction and nonfiction. We took a comprehension/ story element quiz over one of the stories. We read two Scholastic News stories, one about the first Thanksgiving and one about a Thanksgiving tradition we have today- The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade!

           In science we continued learning about force and motion as we painted with marbles (using pushes and pulls as they rolled around a box lid) and had investigations where we observed how objects can either roll, slide or spin. We measured and traced the paths of objects and learned that their path can be affected by their physical properties. We even saw how the hills and inclines of a roller coaster affected the speed of the marble as it traveled on our roller coaster. On Friday we began our performance task of planning a maze. 

            I hope you all have a wonderful break and can spend much needed quality time with friends and family.

 

*SSA is offering one more mini camp before Christmas break. See the attached flier.

 

• From our Language acquisition specialist: With the holidays just around the corner, your LAS team is putting a little something together to celebrate holidays around the world. We are going to change out the window case that is currently featuring Diwali within the next few weeks. If you, or your children celebrate a holiday other than Christmas around this time of year and would like to contribute, please reach out to me!

 

             We are looking for items and/or pictures that we can display in the window for Hanukah, Kwanzaa, or any other holidays that I may have missed. Ideally we would like to             feature pictures of you or our students celebrating their holiday and items commonly associated with the holiday, such as a dreidel or menorah for Hanukah. Any items shared with us will be given back after the holidays when we change out the window case again, unless donated to the LAS team for future use.