This week started off with our
morning meeting, which the students are now taking turns hosting. It is
nice to see them in the leadership roll.
The students started a STEM
project on Friday where their task was to design a maze that a marble could be
maneuvered through. They were very excited and have started to bring in
materials from home to help them construct it. It is fun to see their "designing minds" at work.
We will finish our book Where
the Mountain Meets the Moon this week. The students have been so
engaged in the twists and turns; I think we are all anxious to hear the final
outcome for our protagonist Minli. Ask your child about the book.
In Math this week we will continue
to work on fractions. We are building an understanding of equivalent
fractions using multiplication. This process might be more familiar to
parents then what the students have been doing in drawing the area model.
Remember the goal is understanding not just a rote memorization of a
process. We have talked about it at school, but so parents understand too, if
there is ever stress at home, just drop me and email. I will work with
your child at school to complete homework.
In ELA this week we are working on sentences. It was
a great moment in class when someone noticed in a book we were reading the use of a semi-colon
that we had discussed today in class. Always looking to make our
sentences more complex and interesting, without creating run-ons.
Remember Friday is a 1/2 day, with dismissal at 11:40.
