In spite of the March snow day and losing an hour of sleep, we accomplished a lot this week!
Our habitat unit is under way. Last week at the library, students learned what habitats are and what habitats provide to plants and animals. Pill bugs were observed to see how they reacted to changes (light & moisture) in their environments. Students are working with partners to conduct research on a habitat including mountains, rain forests, arctic, caves and more. Students are using online sources and books to identify the climate, weather, plants, animals and changes within their habitats. Our culminating habitat activity will be a field trip to Cleveland Museum of Natural History on Wednesday, April 26th. Permission forms are coming home with students today. The forms and the fee of $7 (checks only) are due by April 12th. On the day of the field trip, students must bring a 100% disposable packed lunch. No water bottles, utensils or containers that are not disposable. Also, we have 2 paid spots for parent volunteers. Please let me know if you are interested. I will pull names to determine which two parents will come with us including riding on the bus. But we would love to have more parents so the groups can be smaller. So other parents can pay and join us down at the museum. Please let me know if you are interested!
I am EXTREMELY proud of how students did on the Topic 9 unit assessment. Way to go! We still have a lot of math curriculum to get to this year so we jumped right into Topic 10- Adding Within 1,000 Using Models & Strategies. This is a short unit with only 6 lessons. Students will model addition with place-value blocks and represent addition on an
open number line. Your child will also learn how to use the partial sums strategy to
add three-digit numbers. To add using partial sums, first add the hundreds, then
add the tens, and then add the ones. Then add the three partial sums. An example being: 432+219=
400+200= 600 30+10= 40 2+9= 11 So 600+40+11= 651
With Unit 5 in Wonders, we had some new skills to practice. We had the comprehension strategy of summarizing introduced this week. Summarizing is telling only the most important events and details of the story but using your OWN words! Our comprehension skill was point of view. Point of view is what the characters think about the events of the story. We learned these skills as we asked ourselves How do people get along? Cooperation is the answer to that! We started Topic 10 in FUNdations- Vowel digraphs ai and ay. When two vowels go a walking, the first vowel does the talking so each says /a/. Ay comes at the end of words and ai comes in the middle of words.
With Unit 5 in Wonders, we had some new skills to practice. We had the comprehension strategy of summarizing introduced this week. Summarizing is telling only the most important events and details of the story but using your OWN words! Our comprehension skill was point of view. Point of view is what the characters think about the events of the story. We learned these skills as we asked ourselves How do people get along? Cooperation is the answer to that! We started Topic 10 in FUNdations- Vowel digraphs ai and ay. When two vowels go a walking, the first vowel does the talking so each says /a/. Ay comes at the end of words and ai comes in the middle of words.
Don't forget that next week is Donuts For Dads!
Thanks,
Marissa Wilhelm
