Wednesday

*Wednesday Folders will be coming home today! Please look for important info from the Office as well as graded papers!

Math: Today we started learning about factors! We completed a multiplication chart and color-coded different factors of products we kept seeing.  Then we made factor rainbows to help us understand.  Ask your child to make you a factor rainbow for 10! (the factors should be: 10x1, 5x2)  Some of the students were out of the room reviewing items missed from the first test. Because of this, there is no HW tonight since not all the students were here for the entire lesson/practice/independent practice part.  There will be HW tomorrow night to review!
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*I am in the process of getting Mult. Facts cards made for students who asked for them thanks to a great volunteer! If your child does not come home with cards tomorrow and you want some, let me know!

Reading: Eeek! We have been interrupted all week during reading class!! Today we had the boys gone for a bit for the Boy Scouts meeting and then a Fire Drill! We have not gotten through nearly as much as I had planned ~ but this group is so sweet they were doing a great job staying on task and paying attention despite all the distractions! We read a Treasures story about Deserts and discussed main idea, topic sentences, and details.  Students also finished presenting author projects and rated their partner on his/her effort and help.
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We will pick back up reading our Lit. Books next Monday.
*We finished presenting the Author Projects today! They were great! I was very impressed with how well the students worked in pairs, used the internet websites I gave to find information, and learned to present a project! This was never a home project, which is why some of you will get to finally see the completed project when your child brings it home from school today!  Please look to the right at the "Check it Out" section to re-read the guidelines and how your child was graded.  This was also a great learning assignment where students learned to use their time wisely to get their project completed on time and communicate with a partner of their choice.  Another in-school project will be very soon ~ within the next few weeks. I am excited to see how creative our kids get with this one! :) I am hoping to get Mrs. Sharp in to give an extra surprise to let the kids know what a great job they did on their first project.

Science: Today we began our new unit - Energy Transformations. We went through an awesome game and learning SmartBoard activity. We learned where all plants get their energy from, where animals get their energy from, and about decomposers.
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Writing: Students worked on either their 2nd or 3rd event for their Memoir and used Writing Group time to help add in adjectives and get help with spelling.
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Have a great night,