The 4/5B Tall Tales cd’s are almost ready to send home. The kids are working on the covers now, and I will set up the list of what tall tales are on it to go inside. They are very cool, and fun to listen to. Enjoy!
Our Literature and Social Studies are combined as the class listens to a book titled Green Mountain Hero, somewhat based on the life of a real family called the Story’s from Connecticut who came to Vermont in the 1700’s. We have started mapping the journey of the father and son, delved into fairness issues about settlers and Native peoples, and are hopefully getting a fair picture of what life was like back then. The class is keeping a work journal involving each chapter as I read it aloud, and they have various thinking questions and activities to do along the way. We will be working on this after the break.
This week we are going to work on constructed responses in our writing, and are learning about what they are, how we understand them, and of course......how to answer them. The kids did a research project with Ms. Deb on NYC and getting to special places using the subway.
We have continued our work in Spellography, and my group took the lesson outside (it was pretty nice on Thursday) with the Ipads last week. Using the Blackboard app, the students looked for things and generated words on the iPads according to cluster beginnings and endings. Saved a lot of paper that day!
Our unit in Math on Fractions and Decimals is moving right along. We will work in the decimal part of the unit this week, and may be finished either before break or the week after break. So far, the unit has presented the students with concepts about fraction values, equivalents, determining fractions of a whole or whole number, and adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator.
Practice of many of these concepts, as well as others in our math this year, can be attained using the free math sites:
a. Math Is Fun (http://www.mathsisfun.com/) or the
b. National Library of Virtual Mathematics (http://nlvm.usu.edu/)
c. Illuminations (http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivitySearch.aspx)
Our Science unit on Simple Machines is moving right along. We have been using an online site named Edhead (http://edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/index.shtml) to investigate simple machines around the home. It has been fun to use with the Interactive Whiteboard in class!
That seems to be most of what we have done over the last week or so. Until the next time!
Thanks for all your help so far at home this year! Mr. B and Ms. Deb
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