Friday, October 28, 2016

Week of October 24th

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Today is the end of the 1st Quarter! We have accomplished so much already this school year! Thank you to those friends & family members who were able to join us for our final Walk On Wednesday. We loved having you all! While chilly, it was great that every Wednesday this month were able to walk together outside. We will miss this next month. Thank you to those who also donated shoes.

In Wonders, our essential question for this week was What can animals in stories teach us? Our genre for the week was Fables which always ended with a lesson or moral. Both stories this week had the man character of a wolf, The Boy Who Cried Wolf and Wolf! Wolf!Wolf! Wolf! is a Chinese version of the Boy Who Cried Wolf in which the wolf decides to trick the boy. We also read different versions of Cinderella from around the world like Egypt and Native American version. In all of the versions, there was a poor girl, a magical shoe/slipper and falling in love with a prince. Our strategy for the week was identifying the problem and solutions within a story. The problem is most often found in the beginning with the steps to solution in the middle. The story always ends with a solution which we discussed is not always a happy ending. We are continuing to learn more about nouns. This week we learned that nouns can be singular or plural. The trick words for this week were against, knew and know. 

We are moving through Topic 4 in math- Fluently Adding Within 100. This week, we learned traditional addition with columns and regrouping. Students are doing SO WELL! Ask your child how do we know if we need to regroup? The answer should be: If the ones is greater than 10! And if you have to regroup, you get to put a number in the magic box in the tens place. We will finish up Topic 4 next week so be on the look out for a review at the end of next week. I will email to confirm the due date later next week.

We discussed different types of motion including spinning, rolling and zig-zag in science. You will start to see students bringing home Time For Kids magazines which we will be using to teach Scien & Social Studies standards. Next quarter, we will switch back to social studies. With it being an election year, we will complete some activities based around the election and start our biography unit. This unit will culminate in February with the Wax Museum.

Halloween party and parade on Monday. Please have students WEAR their costumes to school. Students will need to have a set of clothes to change into after the parade. No fake weapons are permitted. All are invited and welcomed to attend. We will start the festivities right at 8:50 and join in with the parade when it arrives to us probably around 9:20ish.

Happy Halloween!
Marissa Wilhelm