Monday

12/16- 3rd Grade Dunes Trip (B,B)

Ugly Sweater Day

2:30 PM Robotics Club

2:30 PM Student Council

12/17- Culver's Give Back-ALL DAY

12/18- 2nd Grade Polar Express

1:30 Holiday Parties

12/19- 2nd Grade Trip to Nursing Home

Box Tops and Frozen Friday

End of 1st Semester

12/20-1/3 NO SCHOOL

LANGUAGE ARTS

This week we continued working with anagrams. The students get very excited when they can use the provided clues and figure out a new word to make from the word that was given! We will finish that lesson up on Monday and begin learning about Lipograms.

MATH

We spent some time wrapping up our lesson on transitivity this week. The kids seem to have a really good grasp on the concept. Next week, students will take a Chapter Check-up just to make sure they have a good understanding on everything we've learned so far. 

LANGUAGE ARTS

This week students and I summarized the events of chapter 1 of My Father's Dragon together. Next, we read chapters 2 and 3 aloud. Students were then split up into two groups. One group summarized chapter 2 and the other group worked on chapter 3. After they finished their summary, they came up with a skit to represent what they had written. They will present the skits on Monday. Students seemed to be very excited to come up with a skit to present. I am looking forward to seeing what they have come up with! I will be sure to record their performances and post to next weeks blog for you to view. 

MATH



Students used what they have learned about flipping, sliding and turning to make their own tessellations! Some struggled with it initially, but we worked through it together and all of the students made beautiful mosaics!

                                        

LANGUAGE ARTS

Students shared the reading analyzer they completed with a partner on a Beatrix Potter book of their choice. After all students presented their analyzer, we compared three of Beatrix Potter's books using a Venn Diagram. The kids were able to see that there are many similarities in her writings. Potter was an animal and nature lover and that is reflected in her work. Students then shared a journal entry they had written on an experience they have had with nature. 

                                   

MATH

Students continued practicing growth patterns this week. They were able to use a calculator to put a function in to complete patterns. Students worked on several worksheets to get more efficient at this. 

LANGUAGE ARTS



Students began reading Through my Eyes by Ruby Bridges this week. This book covers a deep topic about how this little six year-old girl brought about major change with integration in schools! Through my Eyes is an autobiography about Ruby's experience being the first African-American student in an all white school. Students were paired with a partner to read. I walked around to answer any questions as they were reading. We discussed the vocabulary and how it is unacceptable to use certain words. How we've learned so much and come so far from these times. The students were appalled at how this poor little girl was treated by adults simply for wanting to go to school. We will be doing a biography outline to further drive home the concept of change, but I believe they already see how much she has done.

MATH

As we continued our lesson on polyhedrons, students used 3-D models of shapes built from play dough to discover cross sections of the different shapes. We will continue that this week. 





                   

I hope everyone had a great weekend!

Mrs. Marquardt

Happy Friday!

12/12- 3rd Grade Dunes Trip (C,H)

12/13- Slap a Sticker on the Principal Fundraiser ($0.50 to purchase a sticker. All proceeds go to Riley's and Lurie's Children's Hospitals. Our goal is to raise $2.00 per student.)

12/16- 3rd Grade Dunes Trip (B,B)

Ugly Sweater Day

2:30 PM Robotics Club

2:30 PM Student Council

12/17- Culver's Give Back-ALL DAY

12/18- 2nd Grade Polar Express

1:30 Holiday Parties

12/19- 2nd Grade Trip to Nursing Home

Box Tops and Frozen Friday

End of 1st Semester

12/20-1/3 NO SCHOOL

LANGUAGE ARTS

This week students learned about anagrams. We used the homework assignment they completed last week to look at all of the different words we could make from the letters PTOS. We also spent some time figuring out several other anagrams. Next, we read the book The Great Show-and-Tell Disaster by Mike Reiss. It's a very fun book that incorporates a ton of anagrams! Due to the field trip, we were only able to meet once this week. 

MATH


This week we continued our lesson on transitivity. Students worked with groups of three objects and put them into order of lightest, middle and heaviest. The learned the concept that you could figure out that if object A is heavier than object B and object C is lighter than object B; you can deduce that object A is heavier than object C without having to physically measure them against each other.  This link has a short video to help better explain the concept https://images.app.goo.gl/sFGSWL4eDVGCVpDD8. 

LANGUAGE ARTS




This week we read the first chapter of My Father's Dragon.  After finishing the first chapter, students used the hamburger model to structure a predictive paragraph of what they believe will happen next in the story. After editing, they composed a final draft of their predictive paragraph. Next week, we will continue reading and discover if anyone predicted correctly!

MATH



This week students put what they have learned about flipping, sliding and turning shapes into action! Each student chose three shapes to use in their mosaic creation. Next, they worked on putting them together and practicing how they could move them to create their very own tessellation. Next week, they will transfer their creations onto triangle grid paper. We were only able to meet once this week due to E-Learning. 

                                        

LANGUAGE ARTS

Last week we read Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle by Beatrix Potter and completed a reading analyzer on the story together. Students then paired up and chose a different Beatrix Potter book to read and analyze with their partner. They continued working on those this week. Due to a schedule change we were only able to meet once this week. Next week, pairs will present their reading analyzers and we will discuss the similarities and differences of the several Beatrix Potter books that they have read. 

                                   

MATH

We began a new lesson this week in math. Students will continue working to discover growing patterns and use the information to make predictions. We began this lesson by playing a silent game. I wrote four numbers on the board and then a student wrote the next number that should be in the pattern I had started. Next, without speaking, the student handed the marker to another student to continue it, We did this silently until everyone had had a chance to participate and figure out the pattern. After every student had a turn, they told me out loud what pattern was represented on the board. We will continue working on this next week, incorporating calculators to help implement the pattern function. We were only able to meet once this week due to E-Learning. 

LANGUAGE ARTS

After completing Girls Think of Everything, which was about female inventors, students worked on different stations to come up with inventions of their own. . Students then presented one of their completed inventions to the class. It was fun to see the ideas they had all come up with! Next week, we will begin the autobiography of Ruby Bridges. 

MATH

We continued our lesson on polyhedrons this week. We began learning about the cross sections of different 3-D shapes. Next week, we will investigate the cross sections more with hands-on activities. We were only able to meet once this week due to E-Learning. 






                     



I look forward to continuing our learning adventure next week! I hope everyone enjoys their weekend!
                     

Mrs. Marquardt