I am totally amazed at how quickly these students have caught on to multiplication. Last week, we spent time showing all sorts of strategies to get our answers: placing items in groups and in sets, using repeated addition, building towers, and skip counting. Students learned the inverse operation of multiplication is division. I showed them a couple of different ways to express division. They mastered these concepts with ease. Finally, I shared "the spider" method of doing division and they loved how easy that was! This week, we'll continue practicing those multiplication and division skills. We'll have an assessment on Tuesday to give me a head's up on places I need to re-teach. I'll be encouraging students to memorize 0's, 1's, and 2's this week. It is incredibly helpful for students to memorize all facts by 4th grade. In reading, we're still looking for the central message/lesson/moral but will be examining myths and folk and tall tales along with our fables. They struggled a bit to get the "bigger" picture for the central message. Example: Sometimes I got the grasshopper was lazy in the fable The Ant and the Grasshopper. I wanted: It's better to be prepare for the future. More practice this week will help! In writing, we're revising our narratives on feelings. We took time last week to build our simple sentences into super sentences by drawing attention to descriptive words that give more detail and word phrases that tell when and where something occurred. They were successful and I'm hoping to see this in their narratives. In vocabulary, we're adding these words: prevail, humble, confident, pledge, faithful, overlook. We act them out, use them in sentences, and have fun with these words all week. Our goal is to expand our usage of words. It's working =) In social studies, we've covered so much. Last week, students were given absolute locations (latitude and longitude) to find various countries on our globes and world maps. This week, I plan to cover cultures of other countries by integrating art. Should be educational and really fun! **Projects for social studies brochure of North Carolina are due this week. Students are welcome to ask for supplies and I'll give it to them. Brochures need to show the 3 regions of NC, showing landforms characteristic to that region, and animals that would be found in each region. Students are also to include the name of cities and towns found in the 3 regions (mountains, piedmont, coastal plains). For extra credit, students can select another state or a country and create another brochure or make a 3-D map out of play dough or salt dough. I included a recipe below: Play-Dough 1 cup of flour 1/2 cup of salt 2 tsp of cream of tartar Mix in pan. 1 cup of water 1 Tbsp of oil Food coloring Mix and add to pan. Cook over medium heat until it looks like mashed potatoes. Dump on plate to cool and knead a few times. Store in a plastic bag. Does not need refrigeration and can last for months. Thanks for all you do at home! Keep your children reading at home! Amy Flowers [email protected]
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AuthorHi! I'm Amy Flowers-mom to four great kids and one energetic puppy. I've been in education fifteen plus years and am passionate about igniting a love for learning, not just filling a bucket.. Archives
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