Welcome to Week 10! We had a great week last week. The kids worked hard, showed great leadership, and are showing an improving amount of maturity. We certainly appreciate all of our students hard work! On to the week.
In math we will be continuing our 4th unit, this one on 1-digit division. This week students will be estimating quotients (answers), connecting models and symbols, working with zeros in the quotient, and understanding factors. The kids have truly begun showing a much higher level of confidence during math time. They are working hard on learning new concepts and many students are improving on their math facts so that the concepts are easy to complete. We have noticed that the students that are still struggling with math facts are able to complete the concepts with a high degree of success, but oftentimes their math facts trip them up. Keep working on those multiplication factors! THEY ARE THE KEY!
In science we are studying the affects of water over earth materials. We have discussed weathering, erosion, and deposition. Last week we completed our first investigation on erosion and deposition. This week we are going to change the investigation slightly when we add more flow to our streaming water over the earth materials. Through these investigations students are practicing writing hypotheses, forming procedures to test the hypothesis, writing a conclusion, and re-writing or making stronger our original hypothesis using our new knowledge. We are working very hard to make each investigation be very similar to what is going to be asked of your student on this years MSP test. So far the kids are enjoying science and really grasping the concepts well!
In reading this week we are going to continue our work in our book groups. Students are continuing to focus on predicting, questioning and summarizing. However, we are also asking students to answer comprehension strategies. After reading through, and grading, their packets this weekend, we are going to put a big emphasis on how to answer a question. Students are asked to write in complete sentences. Please look over your student's reading comprehension packet with them to help them understand my notes to them on how they can improve their work.
One way to ensure their answer is in complete sentences is to use the question to start the answer. An example of this would be: Why did Mrs. Therriault ask me to do this assignment? One way to start this answer would be: Mrs. Therriault asked me to do this assignment because...
Students are also being asked to provide evidence from the story to support their answer. In this case, we are looking for students to use details to explain their answer, use quotes to prove their answer or describe the events of the story in detail. These are all ways students can "use evidence". Saying, "because it said so in the book" will not count as evidence.
Each assignment is listed by day of the week and by the book your student has been assigned. The homework for reading this week is as follows.
Monday: Walk Two Moons(W2M) 9 &10, Junebug(June) 5, Bridge to Terrabithia(BT) 6, Landry News(LN) 8 & 9, and Wild River(WR) 4
Tuesday: W2M 11 &12, June 6, BT 7, LN 10 &11, WR 5
Wednesday: W2M 13&14&15, June 7, BT 8, LN 12 & 13, WR 6
There is no reading homework Thursday or Friday.
In writing this week students will have one last chance to revise and edit their papers. Students will be given a rubric that will explain how their papers will be graded. On Tuesday night, students will be asked to publish their story to be turned in on Wednesday. ANY LATE PAPERS WILL NOT RECEIVE FULL CREDIT. Students can handwrite or type their published papers. It will take Mrs. Therriault a little bit of time to grade them since their are 56 papers. Again, encourage your student to refer back to the rubric while they are publishing to ensure they are producing quality work. While there is not a length requirement, we are looking for quality.
Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns,
Allyn and Alaina
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