Good afternoon families of room 18!
Welcome back after spring break! Students were thrown back into learning yesterday and had a really great first day back. Here's a recap of what we've been up to over the past two days:
Math: Students wrote a math assessment yesterday on fractions. These will be sent home by the end of the week, we are just waiting for a few more students to complete the quiz prior to releasing it back to students. Today we began with a whole class lesson on patterns and will be breaking into grade group lessons tomorrow to address specific grade curricular expectations. This will be a fairly short unit, so we will break it up it with continued multiplication and division practice.
Language Arts: Huzzah! Students have begun narrative writing! However, to their dismay they are being asked to consider parts of their stories one at a time. Today, we began by brainstorming a story based off of sentence prompts and and designing elaborate beginnings from the narrative writing diamond. We are trying to support student use of story planning and this can be a frustrating process for those who like to take an idea and run with it. We will work through this frustration together.
Science: Students are working hard gathering their knowledge for their final assessment piece for the electricity unit. Today they had a healthy dose of science and completed an experiment as well as demonstrated their ability to identify series, parallel, and simple circuits. I don't want to say too much about our final product, but I hope that it will receive a welcome greeting from you when it comes home. Ask them about the experiment they completed today, they created electromagnets and should be able to explain the process to you.
Social Studies: Yesterday we covered the concept of peacekeeping and how Canada contributed to this force. We looked at the United Nations and the role it plays within the global community as well.
Reminders:
-Students need to return their Aggie Days permission forms, volunteer forms will be sent home tomorrow
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