It was wonderful meeting with all of you for parent conferences. I loved talking about the progress and growth your student has made, as well as the shared goals we have. Please know that you can always get in touch with me throughout the year to further discuss your child. Thank you for all of your help and support at home!
Here's a quick update:
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| In designing the solution, groups considered materials, how they might be combined or altered to work best, and the order in which to use them. |
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| Principal Otley visited our classroom and read aloud to the class. We made some great connections between the story and the writing that we're doing in our personal narratives unit. |
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| We watched the fourth and fifth grade chorus rehearsal. This was the Thriller dance! |
- We've been working on a couple multiplication algorithms--partial products and today we reviewed the lattice multiplication method
- Remember to print out the parent letter that I send you each month. It has great background information, which allow you to best help your student. Plus, it makes checking your students' math homework each night very easy because all the answers are provided! Family letters are here.
- We tested various materials for oil spill cleanup and containment
- We're working on the application part now where students formulate a plan and we test it out on a riverbed model containing oil
- We've made story mountains of our seed stories and are working on discovery rough drafts--ask your student to tell you their story (in story, not summary form)
- Next step on the way to publishing these pieces is revising
- Ask your student about the latest in our read aloud, Listening for Lions. Ask--What's the author's message so far?
- We've been analyzing picture book stories for story mountain/story arc structure and talking about how we can apply that to our writing
December 7........Market Day 9:30-10:30 Multipurpose Room
December 14.......Spirit PJ Day-Wear Your Pajamas to School
December 16......Classroom Auction
December 19-January 2.........Winter Break
January 16......Martin Luther King Jr. Day
January 31.......Planetarium (4th grade enrichment)
