Students’ Highlights 1/29/2024 – 2/2/2024
- Music- composing ukelele music, learning Hallelujah on the piano and Tetris on the boomwhackers
- PE- Played Follow the Leader and Duck, Duck, Goose with 5th/7th graders
- Math- building quadrilaterals, identifying their attributes
- Social Studies- Learned about the Gadsden Purchase
- Science- Leaned about Ice Glaciers, made kites and learned about machines that calculate weather
- Art- Painting paper maché bowls
- Language Arts- comparative adverbs, opinion writing, author’s purpose
- Spanish- made maps of fictional places
Looking forward, Language Arts lessons begin our next unit, Mysteries of Matter. “What causes matter to change?” That is the big question we are exploring in this unit. To answer it, we are reading, writing, and talking about what happens when materials change from solid to liquid to gas. This week, we’re reading Melt the Snow! by Marisa Montes. In this play, a snowflake falls on a little ant. How will she get free? Reading comprehension focuses on Character and Plot. Grammar looks at adjectives and comparison adjectives.
Math lessons begin later next week using multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, e.g. by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem. Students will work on learning the facts to 10 X 10 by playing the array game, Factor Pairs, and by practicing with their multiplication cards. They will discuss how to use facts they know to help them with facts they do not know.