This week in math we have been working again with egg carton fractions. After a few days of studying and realizing that you cannot split an egg, we finally got to make posters about equivalent egg carton fractions. Everybody made a unique poster. On Friday we got to share our posters with our classmates and all were creative and great! They were presented in the kiva.
In social studies we have been working on Vermont geography by reading texts. We got to get on laptops and go to www.grolier.com and read even more about Vermont history. We took notes in our science notebooks. One interesting part was about the French and Indian War, which the English were also involved in.
In number corner this week we continue to turn over calendar squares and record all kinds of things about time (see earlier posts). Some patterns are emerging. We uncovered that every five days the time between the day and the day before adds ten minutes. We thought that was cool.
Reading and Writing
In reading this week we have been doing silent reading. We have also been going to the computer lab to work on this program called kid blog. We will be doing responses to prompts and we will also post school related things. Every week the whole class will write a response about the book we are reading at the moment. The response will go with a prompt Mrs.Crowther will post on her blog (on kid blog) and also on our goal sheets. We are also reading non fiction text while we are working on “reading with a question in mind” and identifying important information.
In
writing this week every Tuesday and Thursday for at least all of
January we will be going to the computer lab to do type to learn. We
also wrote to a prompt from a test. The prompt was a letter to convince
your school librarian to buy your favorite book, again, for the school library since it is missing. Those who want to are still doing the young writers project.
Other Important News and Events
- No school Monday Jan. 21 because it’s Martin Luther King Jr. day
- The PTO international potluck dinner had a great turnout! Thanks to all participants!
By Nigel Wormser and Heidi Berger
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