Happy Friday!
Wow! What a week we had! We came back from our long weekend and dug right back into our hard work! We used flashlights and legos to look at how the position of the sun impacts our shadows. We then took it outside on Wednesday and measured our own shadows at 9, 12:30 and 2:30 to extend this learning! We realized through this work that when the sun rises in the East our shadows are cast to the West and as it sets in the West our shadows cast East. We also noticed our shadows were the shortest at noon when the sun is directly overhead! We are finishing up our work on the Earth, Moon and Stars and will have an assessment next week. Students have been given study guides to help them begin reviewing the important concepts! We will then move on to the layers of the Earth and the Earth's atmosphere! In Math, a challenging week as we looked finding common denominators, so we could add and subtract fractions. Subtraction is definitely challenging us, we used fraction tiles to help model this concept concretely, before moving to paper/pencil. We will be focused on this some more next week and then will be looking at benchmark fractions and some line plots before moving into multiplication and division of fractions! Proud of student effort so far. As students work to find least common multiples to help them when adding and subtracting fact fluency really comes into play ! Keep up the fluency work at home - confidence is key! In reading, I was so happy to see the level of engagement today during our literature circle time. Students are definitely digging in to The War That Saved My Life. Be sure to ask your child about Ada and Jamie and how they think their relationship with Ms. Smith is going. Will Ada learn to ride Butter? Will Jamie go back to Mam? Lots happening and great predictions around the room! We also finished up our work with the Fiction Signposts, this week looking at Memory Moments. Students will now be looking for these signposts as they continue reading for their literature circle discussions! Today we had a few special guests in our class! We had the high school peer leaders in to help us look at goals and how we can set steps to achieve in order to meet our goals. I think the high school students were impressed with some of the goals our class came up with! We look forward to having them back in a few months! We also had the unbelievable opportunity to SKYPE with author Shelly Brown and her daughter Maddie, who was the main character in our recent read aloud Mustaches for Maddie. I can't tell you how impressed I was with the details our class remembered from the book and the questions they asked both Mrs. Brown and Maddie. Their new book Willa and the Whale comes out March 3rd, for those interested you can pre-order on Amazon now. Next week, we will be working with our partners to glow and grow our personal narratives to hopefully put the finishing touches on our work! We will plan a celebration of our writing as soon as this is accomplished! We can't wait to share our stories with you! Friday folders came home with comments today as well as a GREEN permission slip for our field trip to the Museum of Science on Wednesday, February 12th. Also, a reminder if you were going to order any books from Scholastic, I will be processing our class order Monday morning so please be sure to get your orders in. Our class code is QBJCX and you can go to scholastic.com/bookclubs to order! Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend! Cheers! Maura Important Dates to Remember:
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