First of all, we celebrated this beautiful day by writing some Haiku poems outside!  I will upload pictures shortly.

A lot of great things are happening this week. This morning, teachers from Darien HS conducted  a program and students made rockets!  We are doing last-minute practice from our folktale presentations.  As you may have heard, students are acting out African folktales - they are so clever as they are incorporating instruments into their skits.  Tomorrow we are having an author visit!  We continue to read mysteries, learn about multiplication, and write poetry too.  Don't forget, Friday is our Spring party.

Homework:

No Work Study this week
Math - DreamBox for 20 minutes tonight
Math - packet due on April 11th
start practicing x4 facts - no quiz until after vacation
Read - 25 minutes

Enjoy this nice, warm day!

As a preview to our Mystery unit, we watched and discussed this short film.  Students learned terms such as detective, clues/evidence, suspect, crime, witness, motive, alibi, and red herring. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od1dTLP6KvI&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

I hope everyone had a wonderful long weekend!  Although this week is short, we have many exciting things planned.  First of all the homework is listed below:

Word Study - sentences due on Thursday
                       quiz on Friday

Math -  multiplication packet due April 11
             x3 quiz on Friday (start studying x4 too)

Read - 25 minutes at night as always
*****don't forget to log-on to Dreambox and practice some math (the link is on the right side of this blog)


Scholastic Book orders are due April 5th.
Library will be on Friday this week.

This week we are starting a new unit on Mysteries. Students will participate in book clubs and read and discuss books within the same series. In writing, we are continuing to study and write poetry.  Students are learning about multiplication now. In addition to understanding multiplication concepts such as "groups of," "repeated addition," and "turn around facts," students are being encouraged to study their math facts.  Last week's x-2 mad minute was a huge success for most!  In social studies, students are enjoying learning about Africa and they are preparing to perform their folktales to younger students.  This week we will also see Gabby's pictures from her safari trip.  Lastly, on Friday we will attend a Music for Youth programme. 

Even though it's a short week, we will be quite busy! In social studies we are finishing our Arctic presentations; student projects have included books, powerpoints, posters, and 3-d models....fabulous!  Soon we will start learning about Africa.  In math we are finishing up fractions and we will begin multiplication in a few days.  Teachers are preparing for a interesting unit on mysteries for reading, but we are learning about African folktales in the meantime. Our writing unit focuses on poetry...perfect for spring. 

Homework:

Word Study - due to the short week, sentences are due next Thursday, April 4
                      the quiz will be on Friday, April 5

Math - review for fractions assessment
           do packet
           -fraction w/s due tomorrow

Read - 25 minutes

**multiplication X-2 quiz on Thursday

More series posters

Students finished their series posters!

DREAMBOX

It's finally here - DreamBox for the home!  Students are welcome to practice their math in this fun manner.  See below for instructions.  The link is also included on the right side of this blog.

.   Students may now access Dreambox from home using any computer with Internet Access that supports Adobe Flash.  For student access to Dreambox from home, simply follow the directions below:

·         Go to https://play.dreambox.com/login/cm3g

·         Click on your child’s school

·         Click on your child’s class

·         Have your child enter the same password, they use at school.  (Hint: primary grades use a picture icon the student selected; intermediate grades use a username and their lunch code).

Homework:

Word Study - spelling sentences due Thursday
Math - fraction work due Wednesday
Read - 25 minutes


 

Series Posters

We are finishing up our unit on series books.  Students worked hard to create clever posters of books that they read.