Friday January 25, 2013

Happy Friday! Even though this was a short week of school, we were able to pack a great deal of learning into it. We have ended our money unit and began exploring the concept of multiplication. We will investigate equal groups and arrays as a way to deepen our understanding of multiplication before I begin assessing multiplication fluency. However, students are always invited to practice their computational fluency on Mangahigh.com or multiplication.com.

In reading we have begun studying the genre of Biographies. Please ask your child about some of the famous people they have been reading about.

Also this week, we finished our study of Martin Luther King Jr. by creating Nobel Peace Prizes that explained how MLK changed the world. All of the students did a fantastic job.

Looking forward into next week, I'd like to ask for each child to begin bringing in an empty cereal box, which we will be decorating and using on Valentine's Day. We will be exchanging Valentine's on this day. If you wish for your child to participate in the exchange, they must bring a Valentine for every child. We have 27 students. I will send a list of names next week.

Our Encore schedule for the week is: Mon.-Music; Tues.-PE; Wed.-Art; Thurs.-Library;
Fri.- Music.

Have a great weekend!
Jodi

Time for kids

In time for kids it was telling us about MLK Jr's life and about people's heroes like Alica keys and Gabbie douglas  .  Also in a page it was talking about pandas like how there is no bamboo.  Also  it was talking about MLK  Jr's  statue.

Equal Groups

This week we learned about equal groups.For example take ten cut it in half and you have two fives.

Biographies By Zeke

This week we were reading about biographies.I read about Barack Obama and he was born on August 4 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Barack Obama was the first African American to become president. .He is pretty interesting. Mrs.Coen read us a book about Martin Luther King Jr. I liked that the most.Martin Luther King Jr. ended segregation so white people and black people can go to the same school and more.

Why you should play football By Jake

Football is a great exercise. You might burn about 1,666 calories during a 90 minute football game. In football the wide receiver runs the most. In football after the game you sweating so much.
    Football is the best sport ever! It's really fun too! It's fun to get touchdowns because after you get it you feel really good. It's also fun to catch a pass. If you win a game you can do whatever movement you want. But if you don't win, you should still be a good sport.

Rise of the Guardians By Jake

Rise of the guardians is so awesome! If you ever see it you'll love it! It's really funny to! Do you know who Isla Fisher is? She's an actor in the movie. She plays tooth. I like Rise of the Guardians because it's an animated movie and I love animated movies. I also like the actors in the movie. In the movie this guy named pitch tries to take over so everyone will believe in him. Do you think the guardians will be able to stop pitch and his army? Find out when you watch Rise of the Guardians!

Football

At  PE  we  are  playing  Football  games.