Update: Miss Jill is recovering nicely. She still needs more time but we were so thrilled to face time with her at the end of the day Friday. It was good for the kids and for her!
Mathematics with Ms. Laura
Fractions and Mixed Numbers- “Improper” Fractions (but there is nothing improper about them!)
- Renaming “Improper” Fractions and Mixed Numbers
- Renaming Whole Numbers When Adding and Subtracting Fractions
- Real-World Problems: Fractions
La lectura
We read all about Henry Wells and William Fargo this week. This was a biography explaining how these two men were so influential in the growth and development of the West and how they began their historic businesses. Their story illustrates one of the most basic rules of business: successful businesses must identify and fill a need.
Students will be picking a biography for an upcoming book report. This report and presentation will take place after the New Year.
Our main objectives this week were:
- to identify literary elements in our Biography: Henry Wells y Wiliam G. Fargo.
- to create a list of reading strategies and then use these to create a bookmark.
- to use analogies and antonyms to compare/contrast.
Learning all about topography!
Ciencias
This week we finished our second investigation: Landforms. Students took an assessment to demonstrate their understanding of the concepts. These concepts during this unit of study were the following:
- Weathered rock material can be reshaped into new landforms by the slow processes of erosion and deposition.
- Erosion is the transport (movement) of weathered rock material (sediments) by moving water or wind.
- Deposition is the settling of sediments when the speed of moving water or wind declines.
- The rate and volume of erosion relate directly to the amount of energy in moving water or wind.
- The energy of moving water depends on the mass of water in motion and its velocity. The greater the mass and velocity, the greater the energy.
- Fossils provide evidence of organisms that lived long ago as well as clues to changes in the landscape and past environments.
On Thursday, our class was introduced to our next investigation, Mapping Earth’s Surface. Please stay tuned to know more about this next week!
Specialists:
Character Education with Ms. Jennie
This month our theme is GENEROSITY. This past week we discussed different ways we can be generous out in the real world, such as buying a coffee for the person behind you in line, inviting a neighbor over for dinner, giving out snack bags to the homeless, or participating in a giving tree like we are doing at SWS. Our quote of the month is by Thomas Jefferson: “I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.” And we are reading a poem called Little Tree by e. e. cummings to celebrate the holiday season. We continue to read our chapter books in class too and do vocabulary, comprehension, and reader’s theatre.