Happy New Year,
We have started a homework club on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:15-2:45. This is a time for kids to catch up and do the work they were unable to do at home. As a team we will be working together with these students. If your child needs to stay, they will call or email by lunchtime. Students can be picked up after homework club or they can stay with Mr. Heckler in the cafeteria until 4:00 when they can catch the late bus.
Conversation Starters:
Who is the protagonist, antagonist in a story or movie? Can you give examples of a protagonist and an antagonist from a movie, book, or TV show?
What was the mystery of Roanoke?
What was the legend of Virginia Dare?
Why did people come to the new world from England to settle?
What effect did the arrival of Europeans have on the Native people? Can you give examples?What was one moment in the False Prince this week that really stuck out to you?
motive means
my vocabulary page is
I put my foot in my mouth.
My figuratively speaking poster...
GOT FORCE DRIVE -Our weekly assignments are updated on our GOT Force drive.
FUNDRAISER - The children watched the video about the Move-a-thon fundraiser. Thank you for your support this. Please check your emails about this from Ms. Adler.
Math
Content: We are finishing up the division unit and moving into fractions.
Division is challenging for lots of kids we will revisit often during the year.
Skills :
Division with double digit divisors
Interpreting remainders
Adding and subtracting fractions
Challenge Choice- Kids can choose between the regular Tang math packet and the challenge packet. We try to get kids thinking about math for twenty minutes a day beyond our Everyday Math lessons. We have added a skills packet this week. Kids can chip away on that during the week.
Reading Content: We learned about protagonists and antagonists in stories, movies, or shows. We brainstormed examples. We continued reading aloud The False Prince. It’s getting pretty intense!
Social Studies Content: We learned about the Mystery of Roanoke. This was a small island off the coast of Virginia (now part of North Carolina). After completing a Pear Deck we discussed our answers. We also discussed what we thought really happened at Roanoke. How could the colony just vanish?
Language Arts content-
In class this week the students were able to do a gallery walk and view their classmate's figuratively speaking posters. They shared many compliments with each other. The posters are laminated and were sent home with their grades. They will be fun to display.
The students used descriptive adjectives to describe their topics in their Cinquain poems. We worked on our first vocabulary pages. A few of the new/interesting words that students selected from their novels were: fluorescent, volatile, exorbitant, rambling, and gnarled. Next week we will brainstorm topics and begin writing persuasive essays.
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