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Friday
Happy
New Year!! I hope everyone had a safe a
happy holiday season. I am excited to see what 2017 has in store! I registered
for my first 50 miler the 1st of the year; I see A LOT of running and hopefully organization (like every year) in 2017!!!
On
Wednesday, I talked about resolutions and goal setting with all the classes. We
all wrote goals for the New Year, personal, school, and HA class. I
even had the students share a goal they would like to see me have for class. These
will be sent home next week.
1st
Grade LA
We did not meet this week.
1st
Grade MA
Transitivity: We continued our transitivity centers we
worked on before the holiday break. These kids did great; they didn’t miss a
beat jumping back into it. They were weighing 3 different bags of items then
writing which was found to be the heaviest and lightest. This will lead them
into our next lesson where we will be comparing weight, then using transitivity
to determine which bags are the heaviest and lightest.
2nd
Grade LA
The
Velveteen Rabbit: Over the break all the students read The
Velveteen Rabbit, what a good story!! On Thursday, we made a Venn Diagram
to compare what we’ve read (so far) in Edward Tulane and The Velveteen
Rabbit. The students were very into this!! The Venn Diagram helped up see similarities
and differences we may not have thought of on our own. The Miraculous
Journey of Edward Tulane has given us so many opportunities to read between
the lines, compare and contrast, and think outside the box. I absolutely love
seeing the kids’ faces when they make these connections!!
2nd
Grade MA
We did not meet this week.
3rd
Grade LA
We did not meet this week.
3rd
Grade MA
Perimeter: Before the break we worked on creating a
fence for our Yeti’s pet. We had 56 ft. of fencing and had to create a
rectangle pen for the pet. Using graphing paper, the student needed their pen
to have the perimeter of 56ft. Thursday; we organized everyone’s pens to see if
we could recognize a pattern. We noticed that as the lengths increased the
width decreased and vice versa. This will also be the introduction to area.
4th
Grade LA
We did not meet this week.
HOWEVER:
Students need to have 2 or
more pictures for their time line cut out by January 10th. Remember they have
access to this project using their google accounts. I highly recommend using
this time to work on this.
4th Grade MA
Cross
Sections: On Thursday,
the students worked on understanding cross sections of 3-dimensional shapes. We
filled hollow 3-D models with different amounts of water. This allowed us to
see what shapes the cross sections could create. An active 4th grade
class, on a short week, using water in the lesson, makes for a fun class. These
kids are GREAT!!
