Since we have returned from the break, we have been involved in a multitude of studies and events. We have bid a fare adieu to our Thai intern Kru Beau. We have started the Winter Sports Program. And the first Progress Reports for 3-4-5 will be coming home this Wednesday. Last but not least.....we had a Putney Paws Card ice cream sundae party celebrating our classroom’s success at getting over 1,000 PAWS cards since the beginning of school! Read on for more classroom content!
Our Language Arts/Literature block for the next 3 weeks is focused on setting and how it may change a character’s actions and their conflicts. We are working with Karen Saunders’ Grade 5 class reading various books based in the past. The students are responsibe for reading a set amount of pages each evening and then collecting information for the group discussions.
We have also been doing a mini-unit on Tall Tales. We watched a few animated Tall Tales, read a few, and have practiced using exaggerations, similes and metaphors. We are now working on creating original tall tales that we will record digitally to share with others within the school. Some of the students will illustrate their tall tales as well.
Much of the writing since the break has focused on completing the Taino report for Social Studies. We continue to work on paragraphing, proofreading, and focusing on the topic at hand.
Ms. Deb’s 4th grade mathematics unit is currently about 2D Geometry. We are working to finish the unit up over the next week or two. The students are learning about angles, shapes, making connections about what polygons are, what quadrilaterals are, and using Power Polygons to help in this endeavor. There is also some review of computation along the way.
Ms. Deb is conducting a Social Studies mini-unit about celebrating Martin Luther King’s legacy and the rights of all people. The students’ are learning about and bringing up many good ideas about fairness and people’s rights.
We will start a new Science unit soon, and very soon Ms. Deb will do her solo teaching. She will complete two full weeks on her own, and I will be “around” but more out of the picture working on other things. However, I will be in touch by email if necessary.
Enjoy the new snow and the weekend.
Mr. B and Ms. Deb
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