Four days...and it's Friday
Class Note: If anyone has an unused 4" binder laying around the house, would you be willing to donate it to our class?
Word
of the week: INTEGRITY,
the quality of being honest.
1st Grade LA
ANAGRAM
PUZZLES: With just one class this week we continued our anagram puzzles. The
students who were here last week were unable to complete them, the
students who missed never started. This lesson worked out great. The students
who were able to work on this packet last week got to the “challenge” section
today, words with 5 or more letters. The students just beginning were able to
get a good start. I have kept the puzzles and letter cut outs in class for
the students to work on if there is down time. HOMEWORK: Handout 6.8 was sent home and to be
returned Monday February 27th.
1st Grade MA
TARGET
PRACTICE: The past two days we have discussed area. We looked at different
target shapes the students designed and decided why certain targets would
be easier to hit than others. We realized that shape AND area play a very important role.
We had fun tossing magnets and wet pom-poms at a few of the targets they designed. We ended Thursday by beginning our Think Deeply over this lesson. We
will finish it next week.
2nd Grade LA
SOCRATIC
SEMINAR: Our last and final lesson on Edward Tulane. This was a great recap to end our
Edward Journey. The class was divided into two groups. There was an inner
circle and an outer circle. The inner circle was asked questions about the
story. They were not telling me the answers; they were discussing them to each
other. While the inner circle was talking, the outer circle was listening. The
outer circle needed to write down 2 stars, a star was something they thought
the inner circle covered very well. The outer circle needed to write a wish as well. A wish was something they wished was covered a little more clear or detailed by the inner circle. Last, the outer circle needed to write a light bulb idea.
A light bulb idea or an interesting idea, was something the inner circle
discussed that someone in the outer circle never thought about or looked at in
that perspective.
2nd Grade MA
SLEEPING
BAG ESTIMATES: Starting with a little review, we continued on trying to find
the perfect sleeping bag area for a second grader. The class gave me a high and
low estimate of how many square feet they believe to be the perfect size for a
sleeping bag. Once we measured them out we tried again. And again we found one
was too small and one was too large. After our two trial and errors, and
seeing what length and width worked best, we believed to have found the perfect size,
18 square feet, 3 feet X 6 feet. 
3rd Grade LA
FABLE GRAMMAR: Tuesday we dissected the fable “The Lion and the Mouse” looking for nouns, verbs, and adjectives. We then looked at simple sentences and their
elements.
3rd Grade MA
We
did not meet Wednesday because of third grade field trip.
AREA:
On Thursday we finished figuring the area of our body tracings. We reviewed more
efficient ways to find the area of a large space. Many of the students were
counting every square vs. finding the fast area of large squares or rectangles.
The students also needed to count all the partial squares, and then decide as a
group how they would add them to the total area.
4th Grade LA
PREZI:
We are coming to the last steps of our Change Maker project. The students are
to be working on their Prezi, basically a slide show. They will use their time
line photos, along with other ones if they wish. This will be shown in the
background as they read their monologues. Please continue to have your child
practice their monologue at home. This needs to be memorized by the time of their
presentation. Presentation
dates are set for March 6th and 7th.
If
your child is NOT done with their Prezi, it can be worked on at home. Simply go
to www.prezi.com, the email login is JBosHA4@gmail.com and the password is 4gradela.
4th Grade MA
JUST
DOGGIN’ IT & KAHOOT: This week the students worked on a ‘Just Doggin’ It’
worksheet. The directions were to ONLY use translation and reflection to move
the dog like shape. The shape started in box A and had to move 5 places. After
the 5 moves using translation and reflection, the dog like shape needed to end
in the same orientation as it started. They will be using this again next week
for their Think Deeply. Thursday they played a transformation review game on
Kahoot. Kahoot is always a nice change up for learning!!
