Report cards are being sent out this week. Please expect to see them next week. Next week is Lutheran School Week, and Grandparents Day. The students should have all brought home a flyer for what the dress up day categories are. I will do my best to remind them, and send reminders on classdojo.
Math: We have made it to the halfway mark of the new topic. Fractions seems to be really easy for them. They are being exposed to fractions in three different ways, shapes, number lines, and actual fraction with the numerator over the denominator. I think it would do them all some good to do some extra practice with identifying and writing fractions at home. Some of them still confuse the numerator and denominator, while others confuse the shaded part of the fraction and the unit fraction. The book taught them that the unit fraction represents one pieces, one section, one part of he fraction, so the numerator should be one. However friends still are confusing that with the actual part of the shape that is shaded. Friday we will take a quiz to cover what we've done so far. That will let me know if we need to pause and review, or if we're good to continue. Reading: This week we are reading poems. We are reviewing free verse poems, and learning about narrative poems. Today we read three different poems, and compared them. We looked for rhyme patterns, figurative language examples, stanza, lines/line patterns, and we discussed what the poem was teaching us. The essential question is how can others inspire us. We spent some time talking about the people that inspire us, and how they inspire us. After reading one of the poems, we discussed how the poem is telling us that no matter how small you are, you can do anything you set your mind to, and that just because you are small, doesn't mean that someone bigger is better than you. The discussions we had today were really great, and I'm sure they are only going to get better. I do plan to have us read other poems, outside of the curriculum, so they can continue to see what we're learning in action. Social Studies: Presentations are finally done. They all were amazing and I think they all really learned a lot! I do plan to have the projects outside of the classroom on the table, so they will not come home just yet. I cannot fit all 16 out at the same time, so I will rotate them out and them send them home. Today in class they all came up with test questions, and extra credit questions that they would like to see on the test. Tomorrow we will create a study guide for the test, which will be Friday. Important dates:
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Author
Archives
May 2022
Categories |