It has been another week full of laughter and learning in Room 114. You can now see our Anti-Bullying posters hung around the school!
In Math: We learned about how to find the mean of a set of numbers and revisited finding the median. We continued working with multiplication and have built upon our understanding by discussing its relationship to division. We discussed fact families, divisors, dividend, and quotient. Measurement was also a topic discussed this week and measuring to the nearest ¼ inch. At the end of the week, we created comics of numbers using the vocabulary we’ve learned, which really turned out really great.
Writer’s Workshop: Due to technical difficulties connecting to the server, we focused a lot on grammar this week in writer’s workshop. Once the server was accessible, most finished their final drafts of their second personal narratives. Students learned how to use a “rubric” to check their personal narratives for all of the components that they were taught the previous week. This included a bold beginning, memorable ending, descriptive adjectives, and precise words. At the end of the week we took a “fall walk” where we took notes using our senses to write about fall. Building upon the idea of adding detail in our writing, I asked students to write poems and descriptions as if they were writing to someone who had never experienced the season of fall. One student even wrote a “Pure Michigan-like” descriptions of fall in Michigan that was spot on.
Reader’s Workshop: This week we focused strategies for solving unknown words. Practicing what we had learned last week, we continued to chunk unknown words in our books. We then switched gears and learned how as good readers; we can use context clues to find the meanings of the unknown words. At the end of the week we made guesses using the context clues about what our unknown words could mean.
Science: In we discussed Scientific Inquiry (or the Scientific method). Considering our latest science experiment did the opposite of what it was supposed to, it sparked conversation about variables and controls in an experiment. We applied what we learned and broke down our experiment into each part. We then went a step further and broke down an experiment in our Super Science magazine. At the end of the week, dipping into our fall theme, we learned about why leaves change colors in fall. Ask your child, it’s pretty interesting.
Social Studies:
Social Studies:This week I passed back the Chapter 2 tests. I was very surprised when I was grading them, as this was an open book/open note test. Due to this surprise, we took the time to learn how to revisit the text and locate answers. We also took a checkpoint for Unit 3, and revisit some misconceptions that students had about the peopling of the United States. I would like to let you all know that you do not need to worry about the scores on the checkpoints. I use them as a way to inform my instruction and figure out what I need to revisit and reteach. The only exception to this is if your child is receiving very low scores. If students are receiving very low scores, it should inform THEM that they should work at little bit harder.
We have a busy and exciting week ahead of us, for those of you are new to King, we do not celebrate Halloween at school on the 31st. There will be a Harvest Festival on the evening of Thursday, October 30th where students can wear their costumes. We will also be having a classroom Harvest/Fall Party on the 31st, but once again no costumes please. I will be sending out a sign up genius link (on Monday) for those of you that would like to contribute to the Fall Party. I have also posted below the current conference sign up sheet, as conferences start this coming Tuesday. Hope you all have a relaxing and enjoyable weekend!
Go Green :) !
Ms. Peck
Conference Sign Up Schedule
Social Studies:This week I passed back the Chapter 2 tests. I was very surprised when I was grading them, as this was an open book/open note test. Due to this surprise, we took the time to learn how to revisit the text and locate answers. We also took a checkpoint for Unit 3, and revisit some misconceptions that students had about the peopling of the United States. I would like to let you all know that you do not need to worry about the scores on the checkpoints. I use them as a way to inform my instruction and figure out what I need to revisit and reteach. The only exception to this is if your child is receiving very low scores. If students are receiving very low scores, it should inform THEM that they should work at little bit harder.
We have a busy and exciting week ahead of us, for those of you are new to King, we do not celebrate Halloween at school on the 31st. There will be a Harvest Festival on the evening of Thursday, October 30th where students can wear their costumes. We will also be having a classroom Harvest/Fall Party on the 31st, but once again no costumes please. I will be sending out a sign up genius link (on Monday) for those of you that would like to contribute to the Fall Party. I have also posted below the current conference sign up sheet, as conferences start this coming Tuesday. Hope you all have a relaxing and enjoyable weekend!
Go Green :) !
Ms. Peck
Conference Sign Up Schedule