News of the week:
--Conferences were 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. tonight Thursday 11/15, and 1:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. on Monday (tonight) 11/19
--Early dismissal next Monday 11/19 (TODAY! )
--Tuesday- Big Blast Party *Students will need to wear socks!
--No School November 21, 22, or 23
--School resumes on Monday, November 26
Happy Birthday to our November birthdays- Julian G., Patience, and Maggie
Math- The last two weeks
we have been discussing and practicing multiplication. We discussed how multiplication is really just repeated addition. We skip counted by 2s and 5s to solve problems with those
two numbers as a factor. We will also created number lines to multiply by 3 and 4. Today we will introduce a multiplication table to solve various multiplication problems.
Reading- This week our story will be How My Parents Learned to Eat by Ina R. Friedman. This story is about a girl, who's parents met while he was serving the country as an American sailor in Japan. Through trial and error, her mother a Japanese schoolgirl and her father, the American sailor learned to eat in each other's style, overcoming the feelings of insecurity in the process.
Text Talk- This week we will read Everybody Cooks Rice by Peter J. Thorton. This is a story about a
child who is sent to find a younger brother at dinnertime. While
walking into other people's houses the child is
introduced to a variety of cultures and encounters the many
different ways rice is prepared at the different households visited. The
words we will study are: appetizing, boarder, community, diversity,
grumbling, and gulped.We did not take a quiz over these words.
Science- We have been discussing using different rubbing techniques to create different textures. The students have performed rubbings on coins, fabric squares, and leaves. On Tuesday, they created a rubbing invention (it could have been ANYTHING!) I mainly want them to be creative and think of something other than what their friend is working on. Wednesday and Thursday provided time for students to present their inventions and get some practice public speaking, as well as being a good audience member. We will spend the next few days before Thanksgiving talking about some inventors and their inventions. After Thanksgiving we will move to the second section of our unit which is carbon printing, also known as fingerprints. :)
Writing-Last week we finished a "how-to" paragraph. We then used some time to create some fun Native American influenced writing. We created color poems (see Student work tab)
and skin stories (will soon be uploaded to student work tab). We also made turkeys with things we were thankful for. These were sent home.
*Our election writing has finally been uploaded. I am still working on Halloween images. I have really missed adding the pictures to the blog the last couple weeks.
I look forward to discussing your child's progress with you soon, if I haven't already! :)
Mrs. Jodie Yuska
