Friday, November 6, 2020

Friday, November 4, 2020


 Happy Friday GOT Team parents,


It looks like we are in for a nice stretch of warm weather. Hooray! Your son/daughter should have set up a time to meet with you to go over their goals on their Google slides and share a few samples of work from their purple folders. There is a paper in the back part of the folder for you to sign and return. Conferences with teachers will begin next Wednesday.  

Here are a couple fun photos of the kids in action.









Conversation starters at dinner:

The Junkyard Wonders

He's catching some z's.

Charlotte's Web jam board

What fears did Gabriel King check off his list?

What is a “yuck” sundae?


What is the difference between latitude and longitude?  Which one measures north and south? East and west?


How many dimensions is a cube?


Why would somebody say “Baby koalas are awesome?


Who is the best person to have a conference with about your child’s education?


In language arts students are selecting a story idea to work on that they will bring to a final polished narrative.  Prompt ideas that we have written in class were about: a person that matters to me, a place, a first time or last time that matters ex:( The last time I saw my grandmother at the hospital and said a sad goodbye. ) We are using the thesaurus to change verbs ( walk = sashay, traipse, trudge) We are adding onomatopoeia, dialogue and we are working on beginnings. Students are deciding to choose to start their stories with a question, dialogue, flashback, action, sound effect, or snapshot of a small moment. 

Our poem of the week is Bleezer's Ice Cream by Jack Prelutsky. We took notes in our Reader's Notebooks about alliteration - a sentence or phrase that starts with the same letter or sound. EX: Morgan Mouse munched marshmallows merrily.  Students are using alliteration to come up with fun ice cream flavors. (crazy creamy chocolate chip chunks.) 


Mr. Smith Math


Content: Big unit test next week, finding Area, Volume and Order of operations, labeling, and exponents!


Skills : Kids are using cubes to build prisms and find the volume of prisms and other irregular shapes. They are getting a few more challenging order of operations problems too.


Challenge Choice- Week 10 (can you believe it?) Kids can choose between the regular Tang math packet and the challenge packet.


Mrs Found 


Reading Content:  This week we worked on “theme” by watching a couple Pixar short films.  Students then wrote what they thought the theme was and why (evidence from the film).  We also continued reading “The Liberation of Gabriel King.” 


Social Studies:  We discussed our new map assignment.  The kids will have two weeks to create their own maps. Map Assignment here is a link to the directions about this assignment.  We also had fun playing Geography Kahoot!  We read online in our Kids Discover lessons and complete some multiple choice questions.














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