FINE FINE FIRST WEEK OF FEBRUARY

We had a very nice week last week, productive, fun, and relaxing.
More congratulations:  to all spelling bee participants and to our very own school champion, HANNAH! Impressive job.  We will all be rooting for her at the regionals in March.
Next week will be mostly an extension of this week.  Below you can see an overview of where we are.

READING/WRITING/SS:  These 3 subjects will be integrated throughout this week.  Students are creating a "Thinglink" on their ipad to represent aspects of the 13 English Colonies.  They will be creating a professional media communication poster on the Thinglink app on their ipad.  You may see them writing paragraphs, drawing pictures, and/or linking to embedding images and videos for this project.  Their completed Thinglink is due this Thursday.  There will be plenty of time in class to complete this project.

There will also be more word study work this week.

MATH:  Our current unit is an application of our fraction knowledge using.  In class, students are using contexts of Pet Store sales to investigate ratios and adding/subtracting/multiplying/dividing fractions.  I am also sending home practice worksheets on the same topic.  Lately, we have been investigating how to use clocks as fractional representations too.

SCIENCE:  We have pored through the NGSS science standards of all grade levels It seems our class is inspired by weather objectives in kindergarten and 3rd grade.  This week, we will choose an objective to focus on as we plan our methods for our community project.  We will be planning outdoor education activities with younger grade levels to assess how outdoor education affects learner attitudes and knowledge.

And, of course, this week is the Valentine's party.  I will provide a class list to students to make cards if they would like.  We will spend about 30 minutes handing out cards before the party starts on Thursday.  Students may bring a decorated box if they wish or I will provide them with a bag they can decorate while passing out cards.  Thanks to all who are volunteering this Thursday at the party.