What a
good-looking crew we have in Room 5! It
was so great to see everyone all dressed up at the concert on Tuesday
night. The performances were beautiful,
and I know the kids all had a fabulous time!
Winter Concert 2016 |
At our school
assembly this week, our class along with our buddies in Mrs. Klugman’s class, got to do the Pledge of Allegiance in sign language. It was such an amazing thing for the kids to participate in. Check out the video clip below! Even some members of our audience were
signing along with us!
In writing
workshop we are starting a new unit in Literary Essay. Many of the skills and strategies we learned
from Personal and Persuasive essay will be carried over into this unit. The students will begin to think about how
they can write about their reading!
We have grown as
readers since September! Last weekend I
was able to get our classroom library updated with some new books and new
levels. The students are very excited
about this, and love getting back into their favorite series and fiction
books. We will be starting a new reading
unit after we get back from February break.
This week we
started topic 10 in math. We are still
exploring different strategies for dividing by 1-digit divisors. We used rods and unit cubes to provide a
concrete model for the steps that we take when we do long division. I think this really helped some of them to
understand why we perform certain steps the way we do. Math fact practice is critical for these
division topics. Please remind your
child they should be going on extra math every night. This is part of their nightly homework.
In science we learned
about conservation. We weighed three different
shapes of clay three times and discovered that the weight stays the same. Shape does not determine an object’s weight. We came up with three different boat designs
for our clay and tested these shapes to see if they would float or sink. I apologize for the clay remnants left on
their hands!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs. Riegel