Iowa Assessment Week

Just a reminder, we are taking Iowa Assessments all week, please talk to your child about trying their best. Ways to help your child get ready for the assessments are 1) to get a good night sleep, 2) eat a nutritious breakfast, 3) dress comfortable (our room does tend to get very warm). 

Yesterday, they did AWESOME! I could tell they were trying very hard. Some were getting frustrated and some thought the test was fun. We shall see what the rest of the week holds for us! :)

Since I am running late, I am combining our work for last week and this week. I will post again if something else comes up during the week! :) 

Math- Last week we discussed division. We we have practiced dividing by 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. We will continue to practice these facts as well as practice multiplication facts this week. Monday we discussed dividing with a remainder. Today we are going to practice how to solve some larger multiplication facts then go into creating fact families for multiplication and division.

Reading-   Last week we read  Tornado Alert by Franklyn M. Branley. This is a nonfiction piece about the dangers and destruction that comes with tornado season. The students are always amazed to learn that Iowa is part of the “Tornado Alley,” and how they can be catastrophic. Students will discuss the main ideas and supporting details of the story.We will not have a basal story and story quiz this week. 

Text Talk- This week we will use text talk in place of our basal story. Our text talk book is Dear Mrs. LaRue by Mark Teague. This story is written from the dog's perspective of an event versus how the newspaper reported it happened. Words we will work on are: despair, obedience, melodramatic, misconception, neglected, and persistent. We will hopefully also find time to read  The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down again. Our text talk words will be different from our reading vocabulary words. So the kids will get a double dose of vocabulary from this text. Our text talk words are: contrary, glide, ignored, sternly, innovative, and rivals.
 
  Science- The students are finishing up talking about sound. Last week and this week we finished our experiments talking about sound moving though air (gas), string (solid), and water.  A study guide will be filled out on Wednesday and sent home. Our unit test will be on Monday, March 18th. I have placed a copy of it below if it does not make it home.

Sound through air (using tuning forks, megaphones, our voices, and cylinder tubes)

 

Sound through string (using cup telephones, and our voices)

We even attempted to create 4-way calling. :)

 

Sound through water (using buckets, stethoscopes, tuning forks, our fingers, and our voices)

 

Our Physics of Sound study guide

 

Writing- We will continue our work in our ABC books. Our reports have been written after creating a t-chart and transferring it to number notes. Students thought making the t-chart to number notes was far more complicated than taking the number notes to a 4 paragraph report! :) We will continue to work with transition words as I did not require them in our non-fiction report. During our technology time for the next couple weeks students will be typing reports and creating a 2 slide PowerPoint presentation, which will be shared at conferences. 

Upcoming this month: 
 3/12 Book Club, Choir concert 6:30, Iowa Assessments
3/13 Iowa Assessments, Book Club Meets
3/14 Iowa Assessments, Book Club, Girls on the Run  
3/15 Iowa Assessments

3/18 Science test

3/19 Spring pictures, Conferences

3/21 Early dismissal, Conferences 3/22-3/31 No School- Spring Break  
4/1- Classes back in session :)  Snow make-up day
 

Have a great week! 
Mrs. Jodie Yuska