Week 15

 Dear Parents,

 

       This week in math we began multiplication as repeated addition. In the problem 3x4, We chant: The first number is the groups, the second number is the dots. This helps them know that this problem is three groups with 4 dots in each group. We also learned that this can be represented as 4+4+4 or by repeated addition. We then had a number of objects and had to divide them into equal groups. We can look at division as repeated subtraction. 12-3-3-3-3=0 There are 4 groups of 3.

        In writing we took a break from our revising, editing and publishing our narratives and imaginative stories to write a THANKFUL Acrostic. These are special gifts from your child to you. They are very proud of their project! I hope you cherish them for years to come.

        In reading we read two scholastic News stories. One was about the life of  Wampanog children and the other was about the life of Pilgrim Children. We read the articles together, compared and contrasted their lives to our lives, and then took the comprehension check. We also listened to the story Thanksgiving at the Tappletons and wrote about what we are thankful for. We listened to Arthur’s Thanksgiving on Friday and followed a directed drawing video to draw Arthur.

       In Science we finished up our force and motion unit and took our unit assessment. We brought pet rocks to school and used our observations to record the physical properties of our rocks. We then compared and contrasted them with our classmates.

Week 13

 

Dear Parents,         

        In math this week we have focused on measuring in inches, feet, yards, centimeters and meters. Thank you for assisting at home with our home work. These measuring pages included real objects. It is important for your child to know if they should measure in inches, feet or yards. We also learned that 12 inches make one foot. Three feet or 36 inches are on a yard stick. There are one hundred centimeters in a meter. The smaller the unit of measurement the more units or the bigger the number of units will be!

       In writing we continue to work on our individual narratives and imaginative stories. It takes a lot of work to take our projects to published copy. They are doing very well and love to write! We also learned about Veterans Day and wrote an acrostic poem to thank our Veterans.

       In reading we read Room on the Broom and wrote a response to this book. We will make a class book for our class to enjoy! We read a Fairy Tales- A Crow, a Lion, and a Mouse, Oh My! We visualized as we read. We also read a Scholastic News article called My Army Dad. We took a comprehension check about this article. We began setting up our flip book about Government leaders. We will be learning about Local, State, and Federal Government next week.

       In science we began our unit on magnets. We explored with magnets finding out that the magnets push (repel) when the poles are North to North or South to South. We learned that the magnets pull (attract) when the North and South Poles are placed together. We practiced using objects to attract or repel other objects on our ipads through STEMscopes. We dug for buried treasure and did a talk read, talk write about magnets and magnetism.