10/1 Announcements Please set aside a bag for collection of all cardboard tubes (toilet paper, paper towels, gift wrap), and send them in to school at the end of each week. We have a bin started here at school and will need hundreds of these tubes for a cool science activity coming up in a few weeks. Below are the math and reading newsletters for Quarter 1. You will find information regarding what students are learning and activities you can do with your child at home: Class Update The students began the day by completing addition and subtraction problems using the strategy of their choice. I used this to guide my instruction during math class. In reading, we read another section of the e-book we began reading in class yesterday called Forces and Motion. We practiced using text features to help us predict what the article would be about and help increase our comprehension of the text. The section we read today was about how forces can cause changes in motion. The students enjoyed how the book related to what we've been learning in science. They also enjoyed the various demonstrations I did to act out the content we were reading about. We practiced using text features to preview text by looking at an article in National Geographic about insect larvae. In writing, the students continued working on their family writing piece and their Free to Be...Me! writing piece. In math, we reviewed the compensation strategy we use for subtraction. The students seemed much for comfortable with this strategy today-thank you for supporting them on their homework! We practiced compensating both the top (minuend) number and the bottom number (subtrahend). After that, we practiced using strategies to solve subtraction problems that involve subtracting across zeros. For example, 400-237. We also brainstormed how we could use compensation to
10/1 Announcements Please set aside a bag for collection of all cardboard tubes (toilet paper, paper towels, gift wrap), and send them in to school at the end of each week. We have a bin started here at school and will need hundreds of these tubes for a cool science activity coming up in a few weeks. Below are the math and reading newsletters for Quarter 1. You will find information regarding what students are learning and activities you can do with your child at home: Class Update The students began the day by completing addition and subtraction problems using the strategy of their choice. I used this to guide my instruction during math class. In reading, we read another section of the e-book we began reading in class yesterday called Forces and Motion. We practiced using text features to help us predict what the article would be about and help increase our comprehension of the text. The section we read today was about how forces can cause changes in motion. The students enjoyed how the book related to what we've been learning in science. They also enjoyed the various demonstrations I did to act out the content we were reading about. We practiced using text features to preview text by looking at an article in National Geographic about insect larvae. In writing, the students continued working on their family writing piece and their Free to Be...Me! writing piece. In math, we reviewed the compensation strategy we use for subtraction. The students seemed much for comfortable with this strategy today-thank you for supporting them on their homework! We practiced compensating both the top (minuend) number and the bottom number (subtrahend). After that, we practiced using strategies to solve subtraction problems that involve subtracting across zeros. For example, 400-237. We also brainstormed how we could use compensation to