October 22, 2010

Another week gone by and we're having a great time! Lots going on! First off, our pictures for this week are student examples of the two art projects we've done in math recently. The first is a factor tree, which is used to find the prime factorization of a number:

The second is the story of the Frog and the Dog, which helps the students understand dividing with decimals: This week at a glance: In science they took bacteria samples and watched them grow under a microscope. Once that project was complete, they began learning about mushrooms and other types of fungi. Quick note, their Microorganisms end of unit test is next week. They should have a study guide for it at home with them.

The reading story this week was Old Yeller, always a good story.

Arts and Technology can be summed up just by saying Cultural Fair. Their Cultural Fair projects turned out amazing. Also, the informace this week was based around the Cultural Fair. I was happy to see as many of you as I did there. Thanks for your support!

In social studies this week, the students have been reading a book called 20 and 10. It's a book about a school with 20 children in it, 10 of whom are Jewish. They've also been really getting the basics as to what history is through definition, and by thinking about their own history.

Math this week we focused on angles and their measurement and dividing by decimals, and writing and grammar we did our second to last poem, the Shape Poem, and learned about common and proper nouns.

Unless I can find the time otherwise, we also had our final Cancer Awareness lesson today. A huge thanks to Deena Bigger, a cancer survivor, for coming in and sharing her story. I think it did the students a lot of good to hear a first hand account of it.

Last couple of announcements, the end of the first term is this week. Unless other arrangements have been made, the grades online, at least for my parts of the rotations minus spelling (so grammar, writing and math) are complete. I have two more groups to give spelling tests to this week before I can upload the final test and be done with those grades.

I seriously can't believe the first term is already over! Can you?! Where has the time gone....

~ "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." - Grouch Marx