- This Friday is Family Friday! Our focus this week is area. We are asking families to help students create floor plans. It will be a lot of fun, and students will have the opportunity to practice the many strategies they have learned for calculating area and perimeter.
- Next Friday we are going to the Central Park Zoo as a culminating activity for our research book club unit. the cost of this trip is $5.00 for students and $10.50 for chaperones. Please indicate on the field trip slip if you are interested in joining us! Slips and fees are due Tuesday, but will be accepted through Friday morning.
- There is no school next Monday 2/8 due to the observance of Chinese New Year.
- The annual box top collection fundraiser is taking place. Students should place box tops on the provided sheet, and should be either glued or taped into place at home.
- This year I am participating in a Digital Literacy specialty group at Teachers College, and I am excited to try some new tech related ideas with the kids. Please take a moment to fill out a 30 second survey about student access to technology at home. This will help me with my planning!
- February break is the week of 2/13-2/21.
- Our African Dance performance will be our "Family Friday" event for February. The performance is on Thursday 2/25 at 8:50 am.
HOMEWORK
Monday: Read and jot for 30 minutes, categorize new words in Word Study notebook, math group HW, practice African Dance 2 times
Humble: Sort 7
Determined: Sort 31
Ambitious: Sort 30
Tuesday: Read and jot for 30 minutes, have parents sign spelling test from last week, math group HW, practice African Dance 2 times
Wednesday: Read and jot for 30 minutes, select a word study menu option, math group HW, practice African Dance 2 times
Thursday: Read and jot for 30 minutes, glue words into categories in purple word study workbook and study for spelling test, math hw from regular classroom teacher, practice African Dance 2 times
Friday: Reading response and math group HW
CURRICULUM
Reading- This week students will dive into the second bend of our research book club nonfiction unit. Within this cycle students will apply what they know about researching to another animal topic, but this time with more independence. Students are still practicing book club strategies using a variety of "talk tools" to get the conversation going.
Writing- After selecting a "seed idea" (an opinion claim to be taken through the writing process) students will work on organizing and categorizing information. They will continue to integrate word choice to evoke emotion from readers.
Math- With only a little over a week left in our multiplication and area unit, over the next days student will understand how to tackle word problems asking for perimeter and area, and will plan how to solve problems where composite shapes miss certain dimensions. Students will cycle through review centers to work on areas of weakness.
Social Studies- This week we will explore some of the multimodal feature of interactive texts (hyperlinks, infographics, images, video) as we continue to rotate through centers focusing on Nigeria. We are starting to discuss how resources often lead to economic and political tension in an area (how oil impacts the region, among other resources).
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