Highlights of the week:
Character Trait - Each month we will focus in on an important trait as a whole school. The trait for October is "acceptance." Math: This week we completed two real world math tasks. The first one was the "Bug Task" - students planned out how much clay and pipe cleaners we would need for a class set so everyone could make a bug. I then bought the supplies based on their estimates and we tested our math by then making the bugs. We did a similar task planning a whole school popcorn party - working out how many bags of popcorn would be needed to feed everyone who would come without going over. We also started our Second Module which involves adding and subtracting measurements, including simplifying varying measurements. Reading: In reading, we finished up Tiger Rising and our first reading unit. We discussed theme, author's intention, making interpretations and our feelings about the book through class discussions and typing them into our class notebook accounts. Writing: This week we worked on finalizing our realistic fiction writing pieces. We will share our published pieces next week and have an on-demand writing assessment next week. Please help your students come up with ideas that they might use for a realistic fiction story - we often use small moments from our own life to help us craft stories. Remind them of author Sundee Frazier's presentation and how she used small moments from her own life to shape some of the scenes in her stories. Science - If you logged onto SeeSaw this week, you saw pictures from our visit to the Curiosity Cube. We had fun using virtual reality to look at the inner workings of the body, built a robot arm and tested water ph levels. Social Studies: This week found us starting our first social studies unit. We discussed indigenous peoples and the Snoqualmie Tribe. Important Dates
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