Feb 18 - 22

A Few Reminders: 

• Lice Checks this week
• Feb 26 - BOKS Family Night!
• Feb 26 - Spell-A-Thon Pledges due
• Feb 27 - Pink Shirt Day 
• Feb 28 - Spell-A-Thon Wrap up!
• Mar 5 - BOKS Starts again 
• Mar 9 - RBES Girls Floor Hockey Tournament 

ELA 

I have been checking in on different aspects of the students KidBlog posts this week. Please check PowerSchool to see these comments. 

Students have been working on opinion writing since the beginning of the year. For Talk About it Tuesday this week, students read through the book Cheetah vs .Ostrich on Epic to write an opinion paragraph based on who they believe would win. This week, we also introduced how to cite evidence from the text read. Students were to state their reason, and base it off evidence from the book read. We worked on some examples together.

This week we focused on singular and plural nouns. Through structured word inquiry, we worked out how to turn singular nouns into plural nouns by adding the suffix, -s or -es. 

Using the new Smart Learning Suite, students worked in partners to write word sums. 

We also had some fun, practicing for the Spell-A-Thon by doodle spelling! 

MATH

We continued to work through various strategies for solving multiplication problems involving basic facts up to 9x9. We also discussed some multiplication rules, and worked with multiplication and multiples of 10.

When multiplying groups of 10, we think of the basic fact problem related. For example: 

3 x 40 

If we know that 3 x 4 = 12

3 x 40 = 3 x 4 groups of 10 = 12 groups of 10 = 120

Next week, students will work through stations to practice their basic facts. 

SCIENCE

This week, students were hired on by Twisted Trio Toys, and put into employee groups to start their first task! 

Once hired, they were given their TTT Toys handbook, where it describes each task they will have to complete. It also introduces them to the standards for toys (non electronic, eco-friendly) and their clientele, parents looking for toys for children ages 4+. 

They then got into their groups and started to research and plan their designs! You might have had a sudden rush for recycled materials this week! Students are encouraged to bring materials in from home to build their devices. 

SOCIAL

Students worked in Peer Groups to mark each others projects using the rubric we co-created. Everyone did such an awesome job on their projects, I was so impressed! Marks and comments are in PowerSchool. 

You also may have heard about a new pet in our classroom! We have a giant, stuffed, rainbow Llama named Lima! The students asked if Lima was a boy or girl, and I didn't know! On Friday we had a little cake at lunch as a mini gender reveal party! The cake was half pink, half blue. I walked around until the students said stop, cut in and our slice came out PINK!