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We certainly have lots to celebrate tomorrow! A few weeks back we hit the reset button and have been working hard to work BETTER TOGETHER! Students showed that when they put their mind to it, they are capable of great things! We met our goal and will celebrate with a cozy mix-it-up day tomorrow. We will be watching Wonder, reminding ourselves as we move into February vacation week that is always important to be kinder than necessary! It is my hope after they all shine so brightly and dare greatly tonight at the Variety Show that they will remember to choose kindness whenever possible! I am challenging them tomorrow to see how many Random Acts of Kindness they can complete over break so we can have a great sharing session when we return! We did a great job on our assessment of adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators as well as fraction line plots. Students were challenged by multi-select type questions, but rose to the occasion by taking their time and showing their work! Proud of their efforts! We are starting multiplication and division of fractions, with our initial focus being on multiplying whole numbers by fractions. We will look at models, repeated addition and how we use fractions in word problems. Throughout multiplication and division we will be working hard with improper and mixed fractions! I am excited to dig into these concepts with students! Tonight, their Friday folders came home a day early and they should also have a yellow folder which has their final narrative piece along with all of their drafts. Please be sure to have your child show you their initial draft and explain the many ways they worked hard to make it better! I was really pleased with their progress as they added stronger verbs, more vivid adjectives, better transitions, dialogue and even came up with some creative titles to hook their readers in! After break we will be moving into Opinion Essays. Students will be given a few topics to choose from and then will learn about arguments and counterarguments! I cannot wait! We have been working hard to draw conclusions and make inferences in our reading and today I put together a simulation for our class. We became Norwell CSI and reviewed evidence at a make shift crime scene in Mrs. Burns's office and then interview notes on our 6 suspects. Working in teams, we looked at all of the clues and found the culprit! Miss Marr will be "dealt" with tomorrow! Please be sure to ask your child about this! Tons of fun learning going on! In Science, we built some graphs around the Distribution of Water on Earth. Students were stunned when they realized almost 97.5% of ALL the water on Earth is salt. We then looked at the 2.5% and what the sources were and graphed those as well. We will be looking at conservation and ways we can impact our water usage when we return from break. We will also be digging further into the Water Cylcle and how weather patterns impact all of this! We have so much to cover together this year, so get some rest over break and be ready to hit the ground running! Wishing everyone a restful and healthy break! Maura Important Dates to Remember:
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