~ HELLO DECEMBER ~
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Mark it on the Calendar!
December 9th - 13th: Santa's Secret Workshop
Friday, December 13th: Winterfest
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Thursday, December 19th: 2nd Quarter Ends
Friday, December 20th - Friday, January 3rd:
Winter Recess - No School
Monday, January 6th: School Resumes
1st Grade: LIPOGRAMS:
On Monday, we finished our packet on magical anagrams. Then, they completed a worksheet where they had to come up with a synonym for a word without using the letter "E" in their new word. This was VERY tricky. Next, it was onto decoding a new secret message. The students had a little trouble with this cipher wheel, but with a little guidance with looking at the cipher they were quickly able to work independently to find our secret message: The Letter E is used most often when we write!
I introduced them to the word lipogram, which is writing words or stories without using certain letters. We looked back at the worksheet from the beginning of class and they now saw they were creating lipograms on this page - this made the assignment make more sense now. They were able to go back and fill in some of the missing words when they first attempted this assignment.
Next week we will explore lipograms.
2nd Grade: PLOT STRUCTURE:
This week we switched gears and the students modeled Freytag's pyramid. The class was divided into 3 groups and each assigned a classic tale. Each group met and summarized their story together.
Then, they shared their summary while walking along Freytag's pyramid. When we were hearing different stories the discussion came up that there are different versions to our classic tales.
This went perfect with our lesson. We discussed that although there are many versions to the story The Three Little Pigs each story will keep the important details we modeled in our plot structure, but some of the little details may have changed with each author putting their own twist on the story.
We will move onto a new lesson next week.
3rd Grade: JANE GOODALL:
This week we started class with a discussion to define the word activist. After they understood the definition, we discussed what an animal activist might do - this let us refer back to one of our first lessons on how animals can't speak to humans, so they might be the voice to speak up for animal rights.
This led us to meeting our new author - Jane Goodall. She isn't just an author, but a famous animal activist for chimpanzees. We looked at her autobiography My Life with the Chimpanzees.
We started to explore some excerpts of the book to look at Jane's life and the influence it played on her love for animals. After each assigned excerpt, the students would identify an interaction they read and then decide how the three generalizations defined the interaction.
We completed a few of them together, before the students completed the rest of them independently with a scoot around the room - moving from one station to another.
We will continue studying Jane Goodall next week.
4th Grade: ADJECTIVES:
All fourth graders completed the CSI test on Monday, so we only met one day this week.
This week was all about adjectives. We took some time to look at the Rules for Ordering adjectives when describing a noun.
We completed an exercise where the students were asked how to describe a noun with a set of adjectives with the objective of listing them in the correct order.
Next week we will move onto a new lesson.
1st Grade: MAKING PREDICTIONS:
This week we completed an activity to practice predicting our area. The students worked through different stations where they first predicted an area then they would measure for the actual area. We discussed different strategies for making a good prediction. We also discussed how utilizing a good strategy helps us as mathematicians make a more accurate prediction. The students discussed visualizing the square units as a strategy. We also discussed filling in gaps of shapes and then subtracting them from the total number.
We will continue to explore area next week.
2nd Grade: CHAPTER CHECK-UP:
The time came for the students to take their Chapter-Check-Up.
At the end of each lesson, students complete a chapter check-up to review all of the information we have studied in the chapter. This tool is then utilized to see if there are any areas the whole class might need a quick refresher before we move onto our next chapter.
It also helps to keep them seeing are topics throughout the year, so they are ready for the Unit Assessment at the end of the year.
We will begin a new lesson next week.
3rd Grade: PATTERNS IN A 100'S CHART:
This week the students began exploring the different patterns we see in 100's charts with our multiples. First, the students were given a 100's chart to identify as many patterns as they could find with their multiples. We discussed some of their discoveries. They were already discovering so many different patterns that they were completing our next activity without knowing it yet!
We discussed some important terminology to use when identifying the patterns on our chart: rows, columns, horizontal, vertical and diagonal. They caught on quickly to discussing the chart and patterns with these terms. This was a universal tool for us all to understand and quickly find the areas of the chart each student was discussing.
To end the week, the students began an activity working with mini-charts to identify our individual patterns of our multiples from 2-10 on our charts. This helped them sort out their first chart that had many of these already identified, but not as easy to read with so many different patterns.
We will continue to work with patterns next week.
4th Grade: TRANSFORMATIONS:
This week the students were introduced to our new topic - transformations. We looked at the terms translation, reflection, and rotation. I asked if any students remembered these terms because we briefly studied them in 2nd grade. They needed a quick refresher and when I stated a slide, flip and turn they quickly remembered.
In second grade, the students used the terms slide, flip and turn now those are the definition to our vocabulary translation = slide, reflection = flip, and rotation = turn. We completed three different activities to practice transforming shapes with each of these movements.
We will continue studying transformations next week.
Have a Great Week,
Ms. Losinski
Friday, December 13th: Winterfest
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Thursday, December 19th: 2nd Quarter Ends
Friday, December 20th - Friday, January 3rd:
Winter Recess - No School
Monday, January 6th: School Resumes
On Monday, we finished our packet on magical anagrams. Then, they completed a worksheet where they had to come up with a synonym for a word without using the letter "E" in their new word. This was VERY tricky. Next, it was onto decoding a new secret message. The students had a little trouble with this cipher wheel, but with a little guidance with looking at the cipher they were quickly able to work independently to find our secret message: The Letter E is used most often when we write!
2nd Grade: PLOT STRUCTURE:
Then, they shared their summary while walking along Freytag's pyramid. When we were hearing different stories the discussion came up that there are different versions to our classic tales.
This went perfect with our lesson. We discussed that although there are many versions to the story The Three Little Pigs each story will keep the important details we modeled in our plot structure, but some of the little details may have changed with each author putting their own twist on the story.
We will move onto a new lesson next week.
3rd Grade: JANE GOODALL:
We started to explore some excerpts of the book to look at Jane's life and the influence it played on her love for animals. After each assigned excerpt, the students would identify an interaction they read and then decide how the three generalizations defined the interaction.
We will continue studying Jane Goodall next week.
4th Grade: ADJECTIVES:
All fourth graders completed the CSI test on Monday, so we only met one day this week.
Next week we will move onto a new lesson.
1st Grade: MAKING PREDICTIONS:
This week we completed an activity to practice predicting our area. The students worked through different stations where they first predicted an area then they would measure for the actual area. We discussed different strategies for making a good prediction. We also discussed how utilizing a good strategy helps us as mathematicians make a more accurate prediction. The students discussed visualizing the square units as a strategy. We also discussed filling in gaps of shapes and then subtracting them from the total number.
We will continue to explore area next week.
2nd Grade: CHAPTER CHECK-UP:
The time came for the students to take their Chapter-Check-Up.
We will begin a new lesson next week.3rd Grade: PATTERNS IN A 100'S CHART:
This week the students began exploring the different patterns we see in 100's charts with our multiples. First, the students were given a 100's chart to identify as many patterns as they could find with their multiples. We discussed some of their discoveries. They were already discovering so many different patterns that they were completing our next activity without knowing it yet!
To end the week, the students began an activity working with mini-charts to identify our individual patterns of our multiples from 2-10 on our charts. This helped them sort out their first chart that had many of these already identified, but not as easy to read with so many different patterns.
We will continue to work with patterns next week.
4th Grade: TRANSFORMATIONS:
This week the students were introduced to our new topic - transformations. We looked at the terms translation, reflection, and rotation. I asked if any students remembered these terms because we briefly studied them in 2nd grade. They needed a quick refresher and when I stated a slide, flip and turn they quickly remembered.
In second grade, the students used the terms slide, flip and turn now those are the definition to our vocabulary translation = slide, reflection = flip, and rotation = turn. We completed three different activities to practice transforming shapes with each of these movements.We will continue studying transformations next week.
Have a Great Week,
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