I hope you enjoy this small peak into what we have been doing in HA this week.
ELA
My first grade friends began learning a fun, secret language this week! They may have come home trying to speak Pig Latin to you! They wanted to practice saying " Hi, Mom" and "Hi Dad" on Monday so that they could greet parents in their new secret language after school. We will wrap this up next week and then tie it in to our next next learning adventure!
MATH
Students took what they had learned about using multiple shapes to create new shapes to play a game called Groupo! In Groupo, the dealer laid out nine cards and students had to use their knowledge of shapes to find matching pairs. Each pair had to meet at least four criteria:
- Same number of sides
- Same number of vertices
- Same shape name
- Same number of inside shapes
- Same kind of inside shapes
ELA
In second grade, we continued on our journey into The Tale of Despereaux. We discussed the use of "light" and "dark" in the text. The students made some amazing connections between these words and how they were used to convey different feelings in the book. I was very impressed with how deep they were able to dig in to the connections! Students should have read chapters 16-20 for Monday. Thank you so much for supporting them on this novel study!
MATH
Second grade has been busy creating beautiful tessellations! Each student created their own basic shape and then used the flip, turn, and/or slide movements to transform that basic shape into their very own unique tessellation.
ELA
Third graders continued on a noun hunt this week. We also dissected a sentence, locating the subject noun, object of proposition, and discussing different jobs of nouns. Students were not familiar with prepositions so after watching a video about it, we discussed what a preposition is and how to locate it in a sentence. We will continue working on grammar lessons throughout the year.
MATH
We continued working on growing patterns this week. Students have been working hard to find the function in algebraic expressions. They also took a check-up to be sure they have a solid understanding of what we have done so far. Those will come home later this week.
ELA
Fourth graders have been wrapping up the Greek/Latin lesson. They have been breaking apart words into word parts and using those parts and definitions to find the meaning of the word. We will begin working on our biography project this week. The first step will be to find the subjects of our research!
MATH
Fourth grade mathematicians were able to create their own "magic trick" this week. They were all super excited to try out their tricks on each other and explain how they developed them. We will move forward on our algebra journey next week.
- Mrs. Marquardt
