Week of Feb. 11

Upcoming Events:

JFeb. 18 No School, President’s Day

JMarch 12 and 14 Conferences (4-7:30)

J March 18-22 Iowa Assessments

 

Notes:

J We have started new spelling homework this week.  Instead of writing our words four times each a student will now have more choices with the spelling contracts.  Please send the spelling contracts back each Friday.

J Last week we started a website called Scootpad.  Students can work on this website at home or at school.  They can complete a reading or math test.  As they complete each test the program will make the next test harder or easier.  You can check their progress with the Iowa Core Standards in the reports section.

JThis week we also started something new in math called BUILD.  B: Buddy Games, U: Using Manipulatives, I: Independent Work, L: Learning About Numbers, and D: Doing Math.  Some of the activities that we did with this is the Scootpad for math, problem solving, and domino addition.

 

Things to Work on:

J Equality—Knowing that both sides of an equation need to be the same.  Example: 8+4=7+5

 

What we have been up to:

Reading: This week we work on words with ee and ea.  We played a new game called spelling battleship.  The gameboard will be coming home with the directions.  Students really enjoyed this game.

Math: This week we worked on folding shapes into halves and fourths.  Quarters were also introduced this week.  We have worked on ordering and comparing fraction strips. 

Science/ Social Studies: We have finished our unit on mass and matter.  This week we talked about mixtures and ways we could separate them.  We also talked about ways that solids can change.