 Hi Families, Welcome back to school life after what I hope was a restful February break for your child. We got right back into academics with an engaging read aloud, challenging math work with decimals, and science work with ecosystems. Read A Thon Information about the read-a-thon came home this week. Please sign your student up for the read-a-thon with the link on our class flyer. Teachers will enter minutes that students read at school, and you/ your student should enter the minutes they read at home. Please sign up using an adult email address and not your student’s email address. Here is what we’ve been up to this past week. Math Unit 5: Place Value Patterns and Decimal Operations This week we worked on comparing the values of decimals and rounding them. Students learned to carefully consider each place value when doing this work.
English Language Arts Unit 3: Adventure and Survival: Narrative and Literary Analysis This week we continued with our novel study of Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan. It is a beautifully written story about a wealthy Mexican girl whose world is shattered by tragedy, forcing her and her mother to flee to the United States and experience hard labor as farm workers in 1930s California. The novel is rich in figurative language, vocabulary, themes, and nuance. As I read aloud, students have been following along, making inferences, visualizing, and interpreting a variety of literary devices such as simile, metaphor, personification, and foreshadowing. Some vocabulary words that we learned this week were: indignation, discreet, salvage, and silhouetted. Students also answered comprehension questions about the novel in writing. For independent reading, I assigned students to read I Survived: True Stories: The Children’s Blizzard of 1888. This fascinating nonfiction book about 5 epic disasters is an engaging grade-level read. Students will read it independently then answer comprehension questions independently to show their understanding and build important reading habits, such as rereading, finding evidence in the text, and synthesizing information. Science Unit 4: Matter and Energy Cycles Before the break, as part of our last science unit on Water, students enjoyed testing their water filters to see how clean they could get dirty water using classroom-provided materials. It was a very fun experiment! We also enjoyed the lab from Science From Scientists where students got to dissect an owl pellet to find the bones of the owl’s meal. Yum! This week we began our next science unit on how matter and energy cycles within an ecosystem. Some of these concepts are a review from our ELA unit on Ecosystems. This week we explored cells and how cells in plants and animals function generally. Community Building Students got right back into the routines of school, their favorite being our daily Morning Meeting, where we greet each other, share something about ourselves, and play a team-building activity. This week, we also enjoyed a special assembly from an author who wrote about her disabled dog as inspiration for everyone to persevere through hardship. We got to meet “Ivy” the French bulldog who became paralyzed in her hind legs, but carried on being an energetic, playful dog with the loving help of her owners and her own determination. Very uplifting! Homework This week we had a daily math sheet, independent reading, and a grammar packet for homework. Please review your child’s work before they return it to school and use this interaction as an opportunity to teach them the importance of work quality, personal responsibility, and independent practice. Thank you! You can stay on top of your child’s homework with my Homework Assignment Log. Upcoming Events
Pictures Below are a few pictures from this week and our week before the break. Have a wonderful weekend!
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