REMINDER: No School on Friday.
This group had an extra minute to help model our new class rug. It caused quite a bit of excitement for the kiddos when the entered the room this week.
Mark it on the Calendar!
Friday, October 25th: No School - Fall Recess
Thursday, October 31st: Happy Halloween
Sunday, November 3rd: Daylight Savings Time
Fall Back
Tuesday, November 5th: E-Learning Day
Wednesday, November 6th: Early Dismissal Day
at 1:45pm
Parent Teacher Conferences from 2-8pm
Thursday, November 7th: Early Dismissal Day
at 1:45pm
Parent Teacher Conferences from 2-8pm
Monday, November 11th: Veteran's Day
Veteran's Day Program in Gym at 1pm
Thursday, November 14th: Picture Retake Day
Wednesday, November 20th: 4th Grade Musical
at 6:30pm Chesterton Middle School
Wednesday, November 27th: Thanksgiving Break
No School
Thursday, November 28th: Thanksgiving Break
No School
Friday, November 29th: Thanksgiving Break
No School
NEWS AROUND YOST:
RED RIBBON WEEK
October 28th - 31st
wear red and sign the drug free pledge
Tuesday:
wear mix-matched socks
Wednesday:
wear a hat
Thursday:
wear your Halloween costume during the Halloween Dance
WOW! This group accomplished a lot this week. To start the week, they translated the lyrics of a song to Pig Latin. Then, we listened to the song which is sung in Pig Latin. We moved onto translating one of our secret connections from our last lesson into Pig Latin. Then, the students presented them to the class for the other students to guess their connection.
We had some extra time and played a quick version of Simon Says in Pig Latin.
This week I introduced to the students to a class organizer of the writing process. We utilized this to help track the different steps the authors are at while they are completing this assignment. This week the students were introduced to revising and editing their paper. This also helped them understand why I referred to their draft as their sloppy copy. We looked at ARMS and CUPS to help us have a better understanding of the revising and editing steps:
We took some time out before the students edited their paper for a mini-grammar lesson. We briefly reviewed when we should have capital letters in a sentence. The main focus of the lesson was with our proper nouns verse common nouns. Then, the students continued to work at their own pace with their persuasive writing.
Next week we will wrap up our opinion writing.
Then, we switched gears to editing their paper. We reviewed this step by looking over the model of CUPS:
It was time for the students to respond to our friends Dru and Teller with what they discovered about symmetry. Together as a class, we looked at the question the students were asked: They needed to create a rectangle from their triangle combinations. Then, they were asked to draw all of the lines of symmetry in that shape and tell how they knew those were lines of symmetry. We started by filling out our Think Frame together.
This looked further at the question and the students took notes on all of the information they were taught on symmetry. After completing the Think Frame, the students were ready to respond the Dru and Teller. There was some confusion to if the answer would be 2 or 4 lines of symmetry and this depended on if they created a rectangle or square as their original shape. We had to dig deeper into this and remember that all squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles were squares. This let them know that both answers would be correct, but they needed to make sure they only had 4 lines of symmetry if it was a square.
This week we had students out on both days for field trips. We were going to start a new lesson, but it is challenging and I don't want anyone to miss anything important. To keep everyone at the same spot, we took a break from our lesson this week and completed some extra enrichment activities.
We looked at our Zacarro packet that has us solving some algebraic expressions. To complete this packet, I had to show the students how to isolate the variable to one side of the equation. This was definitely a challenge for them to understand, but a great opportunity to let them see a different part of algebra with the variable.
4th Grade: 3-DIMENSIONAL SHAPES:
They took a few moments to finish up their thoughts from their Think Deeply last week. Then, we completed an enrichment activity looking at how triangles were classified. The students were introduced to a new game we can play in the classroom called SET. This game focuses on matching attributes of cards to find sets of 3 - the catch is you must look at 4 different attributes each time and those attributes must all be the same or different. They had to look at the shape, number of shapes, pattern of the shapes and the color of the shapes. It really got them thinking!
We switched gears to our next lesson. This lesson introduced the differences of 2-Dimensional and 3-Dimensional shapes. For day one, they were asked to list all the shapes they knew and sort them into the two categories. It also explained to them that 2-dimensional shapes have two measurements: length and width; while our 3-dimensional shapes have three measurements: length, width and height. This gave the students a better understanding to the reason behind the names 2-D and 3-D. To the end the week, they were introduced to one more term - a polyhedron. For a 3-D shape to classify as a polyhedron all it's faces had to be a polygon. To look at this idea further, we utilized our 3-D shapes we had in the room. We separated them into the two categories and then looked at the faces of the shapes. This definitely helped them understand the definition of a polyhedron.
Thursday, October 31st: Happy Halloween
Sunday, November 3rd: Daylight Savings Time
Fall Back
Tuesday, November 5th: E-Learning Day
Wednesday, November 6th: Early Dismissal Day
at 1:45pm
Parent Teacher Conferences from 2-8pm
Thursday, November 7th: Early Dismissal Day
at 1:45pm
Parent Teacher Conferences from 2-8pm
Monday, November 11th: Veteran's Day
Veteran's Day Program in Gym at 1pm
Thursday, November 14th: Picture Retake Day
Wednesday, November 20th: 4th Grade Musical
at 6:30pm Chesterton Middle School
Wednesday, November 27th: Thanksgiving Break
No School
Thursday, November 28th: Thanksgiving Break
No School
Friday, November 29th: Thanksgiving Break
No School
NEWS AROUND YOST:
RED RIBBON WEEK
October 28th - 31st
Spirit Days:
Monday:wear red and sign the drug free pledge
Tuesday:
wear mix-matched socks
Wednesday:
wear a hat
Thursday:
wear your Halloween costume during the Halloween Dance
NEWS AROUND DUNELAND:
Chesterton High School Student Government Presents:
HALLoween Trick or Treat
When: October 30th, 5-6:30 pm
Where: Chesterton High School
Enter through Door 1
Who: All kids through 4th Grade
Admission is $5.00 per family.
A portion of the proceeds will go to Riley's Children's Hospital.
Snacks and refreshments will be available for an additional $1.00 per item.
1st: Grade: SILLY SPEAK:
WOW! This group accomplished a lot this week. To start the week, they translated the lyrics of a song to Pig Latin. Then, we listened to the song which is sung in Pig Latin. We moved onto translating one of our secret connections from our last lesson into Pig Latin. Then, the students presented them to the class for the other students to guess their connection.
To end the week, the students were introduced to the hamburger model. As a class, we had to decide if all first graders should learn Pig Latin - to my surprise they said no. I explained to them that this was an opinion they formed about this question. Then, we used their opinion to write a persuasion paragraph using our hamburger model.
We had some extra time and played a quick version of Simon Says in Pig Latin.
Next week, we will begin a new lesson.
2nd Grade: OPINION WRITING:
This week I introduced to the students to a class organizer of the writing process. We utilized this to help track the different steps the authors are at while they are completing this assignment. This week the students were introduced to revising and editing their paper. This also helped them understand why I referred to their draft as their sloppy copy. We looked at ARMS and CUPS to help us have a better understanding of the revising and editing steps:
We took some time out before the students edited their paper for a mini-grammar lesson. We briefly reviewed when we should have capital letters in a sentence. The main focus of the lesson was with our proper nouns verse common nouns. Then, the students continued to work at their own pace with their persuasive writing.
3rd Grade: CHARACTER TRAITS IN WRITING:
This week the students were ready to revise and edit their sloppy copies. We took some time to go over the differences with these two steps. They started with revisions to make their paper grow. To complete this step, I introduced the students to ARMS:
We discussed why it is important to revise before editing - this allows us to save time and edit once verse editing, revising and then editing your revision. We also introduced peer editing with a neighbor. This allowed a second set of eyes to catch something they may have missed. They were finally ready to write their final copy.
To end the week, we completed some grammar activities.
4th Grade: INVENTION STATIONS:
This week the students completed the stations from around the room. On Tuesday, they shared some of the creations from this project.
Then, we switched gears and started a grammar lesson. This was the first time my 4th graders completed the 4-level sentence analysis this year, so this was used to introduce this worksheet.
We will continue with our grammar lesson next week.
1st Grade:WEIGHT:
*My first grade class did not meet this week.
2nd Grade: THINK DEEPLY:
It was time for the students to respond to our friends Dru and Teller with what they discovered about symmetry. Together as a class, we looked at the question the students were asked: They needed to create a rectangle from their triangle combinations. Then, they were asked to draw all of the lines of symmetry in that shape and tell how they knew those were lines of symmetry. We started by filling out our Think Frame together.
This looked further at the question and the students took notes on all of the information they were taught on symmetry. After completing the Think Frame, the students were ready to respond the Dru and Teller. There was some confusion to if the answer would be 2 or 4 lines of symmetry and this depended on if they created a rectangle or square as their original shape. We had to dig deeper into this and remember that all squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles were squares. This let them know that both answers would be correct, but they needed to make sure they only had 4 lines of symmetry if it was a square.
Next week, we will begin a new lesson.
3rd Grade: ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES:
This week we had students out on both days for field trips. We were going to start a new lesson, but it is challenging and I don't want anyone to miss anything important. To keep everyone at the same spot, we took a break from our lesson this week and completed some extra enrichment activities. 
We looked at our Zacarro packet that has us solving some algebraic expressions. To complete this packet, I had to show the students how to isolate the variable to one side of the equation. This was definitely a challenge for them to understand, but a great opportunity to let them see a different part of algebra with the variable. 
We will begin our new lesson next week.
They took a few moments to finish up their thoughts from their Think Deeply last week. Then, we completed an enrichment activity looking at how triangles were classified. The students were introduced to a new game we can play in the classroom called SET. This game focuses on matching attributes of cards to find sets of 3 - the catch is you must look at 4 different attributes each time and those attributes must all be the same or different. They had to look at the shape, number of shapes, pattern of the shapes and the color of the shapes. It really got them thinking!
We switched gears to our next lesson. This lesson introduced the differences of 2-Dimensional and 3-Dimensional shapes. For day one, they were asked to list all the shapes they knew and sort them into the two categories. It also explained to them that 2-dimensional shapes have two measurements: length and width; while our 3-dimensional shapes have three measurements: length, width and height. This gave the students a better understanding to the reason behind the names 2-D and 3-D. To the end the week, they were introduced to one more term - a polyhedron. For a 3-D shape to classify as a polyhedron all it's faces had to be a polygon. To look at this idea further, we utilized our 3-D shapes we had in the room. We separated them into the two categories and then looked at the faces of the shapes. This definitely helped them understand the definition of a polyhedron.
Next week we will continue exploring 3-D shapes.
Happy Fall Break!
Ms. Losinski
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