The students in room 13 are extremely thoughtful and helpful students. We have been working on building our independence as a class and I have seen much growth in students using strategies to tackle situations on their own. We had a substitute in our classroom on Wednesday and Thursday afternoon. I received notes from both teachers letting me know that the class was helpful and knew exactly what needed to be completed.
This was the final week for students to complete their Literary Essays. This upcoming week we will be spending time focusing on prefixes and suffixes as well as other grammatical skills. We will be continuing to work through the book Because of Winn-Dixie. We are working on retelling the information from chapters we have read. We also have talked about how authors write not only because they like telling stories, but because they want us to learn something from the story. In Math we continued working with finding equivalent fractions and comparing fractions. We noticed that the smaller the denominator, the larger the size of the piece. We can compare the fractions 2/3 and 2/4 with our reasoning skills. The numerator is the same, but the denominators are different. The denominators being different sizes tells me that 2 pieces that are thirds are larger than 2 pieces that are fourths. We have also discovered that we can find equivalent fractions by breaking apart the equal parts equally. For example, if the fraction we have is fourths, we can break apart each fourth into two equal pieces to create eighths. We ended the week with a trip to the Fleming Museum of Art to look at the Native American collection. It was great to see students use the information from our read aloud The Birchbark House as well as the research they completed during our Research Unit to come up with questions for the tour guide. Ask the students about the moccasins and the pots they saw on their trip! Many students completed field drawings, writing down information in little booklets they had created during our art Activity Time. The Art piece they brought home relates to a pot brought by the Iroquois to the Abenaki. Many students mentioned they wished they could have more time at the Museum. Sadly, it closes this Friday May 10th for the season, but now students are aware of its location! Upcoming Dates May 8th 8:20 Spring Concert May 10th Parent Input Forms are Due May 10th Early Release at 12:30 May 17th 5:30-7:30 pm Spring Fling May 18th 9:00-12:00 Sprucing up the Orchard Gardens Orchard School is looking to create a Rock Garden during the 18th garden work day. Miss Susie (art teacher) will be having the students paint rocks. You can help by bringing in rocks to paint by MAY 17th. Students can bring a rock for themselves. We are looking for rocks that are smooth, round/oval, and the size of an egg. If the student wants to use a specific rock they have found, have them write their initials on the bottom of the rock. Extra rocks can be left unmarked. Thank you!
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