 Hi Families, Here is what we’ve been up to this past week. Math Unit 6: More Decimal and Fraction Operations We took our End-of-Unit Assessment on Unit 5, Place Value Patterns and Decimal Operations and corrected them as a class. I hope to grade them and send them home by the end of next week for your review. Many students still need more practice with multiplying and dividing decimals, so I will build that into our work. We started the next unit where we will continue working with decimal operations, incorporating measurement conversions, and then move into fraction operations. This week we worked on powers of 10, noticing patterns in how multiplying by 10, 100, 1,000 and so on shift a number’s value. For example, 6.5 x 10 = 65 and 6.5 x 100 = 650. We also used exponents to represent large powers of 10, such as 1,000,000 = 106 and has 6 zeros.
English Language Arts Unit 4: The Civil War Era Students completed an assessment on our novel Esperanza Rising, which was an essay I wrote about how Esperanza changed over the course of the novel, but with missing words and phrases that students had to fill in. Most students did very well! We kicked off our fourth literacy unit on The Civil War Era. In this unit, we will learn about how the US divided itself, particularly over the issue of enslavement. We will read about resistance to enslavement, important events of the Civil War, and its outcome. Students will choose a historical figure of the time to research and write about. Science Unit 5: Ecosystem Interactions We continued to observe corn seed plant growth and our in-class composters. Some plants are growing well and need to be transplanted, others never germinated and need to be culled. In our composters, we already witnessed decomposition in our wet composters, with the carrots in those composters breaking down into mush. So cool! Also this week, we integrated literacy and science by researching environmental threats and drafting letters advocating our concerns to elected leaders. Students chose an environmental threat such as pollution, global warming, deforestation, or unsustainable fishing to research and then chose an elected leader from Massachusetts to write to, arguing for them to make this issue a priority. We’ll be mailing those letters next week! Community Building In our Second Step lesson this week we learned about handling insults and using kind language in our interactions. Homework This week we had a daily math sheet, a grammar packet on verbs, and independent reading for homework. You can stay on top of your child’s homework with my Homework Assignment Log.  Upcoming Events
Pictures Only 1 this week, sorry! The Reading Police Department served lunch to students on Tuesday. I hope you had a wonderful weekend!
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