This week in Room 203...
Math We took our end of unit assessment for the addition/subtraction unit this week. Your students showed perseverance and strong mathematical thinking despite saying "Not another test!" We finished the week with a real world math task. Students had to prove a claim with mathematical thinking including creating a poster to share in front of the class outlining their assumptions and strategies. Please ask them if it is possible to watch 50 movies in one night. We start our next module (unit), multiplication next week. Reading This week we created book clubs to help us really think about the higher level books we are reading. In our book clubs, we created norms for how our meetings should go as well as discussed stopping points in our books were we had questions, made connections for just needed to do a recap. Writing We continued to write poetry this week focusing on feelings, mood, and using comparative language. Next week we will have a poetry slam - more information to follow but think berets, turtlenecks or all black for an outfit =) Of course this is optional as always and not required. Social Studies/Sharing Students continued to work on our community this week. This week we created a classroom economy and certificates for the goods we will and services we will be selling. STEM Night Family STEM Night is fast approaching and we are getting excited to share a wonderful variety of engineering activities, including Flying Contraptions from the Museum of Flight. Your family will work as a team on many STEM challenges. Come prepared to learn a trick or two from your child and perhaps they’ll learn something from you too as you work to solve hands-on problems together. The evening starts at 6pm and you’ll want to be at Maple Hills right on time to have enough time to fit in all the activities. Science Fair Projects will also be on display in the hallways. Maple Hills teachers are looking forward to seeing you and your family on Friday, March 8th, 6pm-7:30pm, at the Family STEM Night. Information was sent home earlier this week and I would encourage students to do a project to share! Let me know if you need help with ideas. Reminders: -Sharing is required and part of student listening and speaking grade. -Please return purple folders daily -Library books are due each Friday. Book bags are due Tuesdays. -Please send 2 small snacks in each day with your student. Have a great weekend! Ms. Warner Dates to Know:
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This week in Room 203...
We did it! The students finished the first two rounds of HICAP testing and I so am proud of the hard work, perseverance and grit they showed. We celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. day by having Ms. Tapper come in to do a read-aloud and discussion, having our own discussions and creating our own "I have a dream speeches." Math Our assessment for this unit will be on January 24, 2019. Please refer to the packet sent home on last week for a practice assessment students can work on at home as well as samples of the strategies we are using in class. Social Studies/Sharing Students continued to work on our community this week. This week we discussed goods and services. We talked about supply and demand, as well as how we will advertise our businesses. Reminders: -Sharing is required and part of student listening and speaking grade. -Please return purple folders daily -Library books are due each Friday. Book bags are due Tuesdays. -Please send 2 small snacks in each day with your student. Have a great weekend! Ms. Warner Dates to Know:
This week in Room 203...
Next week we will have the first 2 of the 3 tests involved in the district Hicap testing. Data from these tests is used for placement in the district highly capable programs, but the data is also looked at for things such as balancing classes, etc. We have spent time this week talking about test strategies and practicing how to take a test. Please write your student a note of encouragement and send it in Monday (it was included in the packet sent home on Thursday in the purple folders). Reading This week we continued the reading unit - Bigger Books Mean Amping up Reading Power. We talked about author intention with the use of literary language. Students practiced pulling out literary language from their books and we talked about the intention of author's in using such language. Today we did a gallery walk of a picture book and students Our first three lessons taught us how to read more fluently. We also reviewed choosing "Just Right" books and how important it is to be able to read the words in our books as well as to retell what is happening. Writing We also started a new unit in writing - Poetry. Ask you student about to describe a simple object to you through a poet's eyes. Our ceiling became "the sky of our classroom" and scissors "closed tight like a shark's mouth on a school of fish!" Math We continue to work on developing successful strategies in addition and subtraction as move into 3 and 4 digit numbers. Social Studies/Sharing We started a new unit in social studies - StoryPath. Students will be building a community and running businesses in the community. They are very excited! Sharing due next week is the Dream Mobile - construction paper sent home yesterday. Have a great weekend! Ms. Warner Dates to Know:
This week in Room 203...
I hope you all had a wonderful break! I missed your students and was glad to be back in the classroom with them starting on Wednesday. Hopefully you saw the class posted on the school district Facebook page - I am so proud of the students for their hard work and compassion. Reading This week we started a new reading unit - Bigger Books Mean Amping up Reading Power. Our first three lessons taught us how to read more fluently. We also reviewed choosing "Just Right" books and how important it is to be able to read the words in our books as well as to retell what is happening. Writing We also started a new unit in writing - Poetry. Ask you student about to describe a simple object to you through a poet's eyes. Our ceiling became "the sky of our classroom" and scissors "closed tight like a shark's mouth on a school of fish!" Math We continue to work on developing successful strategies in addition and subtraction as move into 3 and 4 digit numbers. Social Studies/Sharing We started a new unit in social studies - StoryPath. Students will be building a community and running businesses in the community. They are very excited! Sharing due next week is the Dream Mobile - construction paper sent home yesterday. Have a great weekend! Ms. Warner Dates to Know:
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