Math:
Math stations are rocking and rolling! Third graders continued to work on multiplication facts including the 9's. Fourth graders have been focusing on subtracting multi-digit numbers. The fifth graders began working on adding and subtracting mixed numbers with like and unlike denominators. There is a great hum of activity during our math time. It's exciting to see students active with math for such a good chunk of time. We sent out an email asking for volunteers to help with our independent station during math. Ideally, it would be great to get one volunteer for each day of the week-one person does Mondays, one does Tuesdays, etc. We currently have had one parent offer to come in on Fridays and another volunteer to come in on Tuesdays. If you are interested in helping out, please email, call or stop in!
Reading:
All of the book clubs have completed their books this week! The students have been excited to share their books with their classmates, so next week we will give the groups time to create a book report to share with the entire group! All students received a rubric for the book report on Monday, the 15th. The third graders have a rubric that is slightly different than the fourth and fifth graders. We talked about what a rubric is and why it is helpful to have. We also showed an example of what a book report might look like using Google Presentation, and gave the students the opportunity to "grade" the presentation using the rubric. They are hard graders! Students will be using the Chromebooks and the computers in the lab to complete the project. We are hoping to have all presentations complete by Wednesday. In other great news, Mrs. Petersen and Mrs. Ebert have completed assessing student reading levels using the Fountas and Pinnell tests! The students were great at being flexible about leaving their station during workshop to meet with the teachers.
Writing:
Next week we are going to get our writing workshop in full swing! We will begin the year writing personal narratives. Trying something a little different, we have created our planning sheets in Google Docs and will be sharing them with the students to complete during our Guided Writing time. It will be wonderful to see the students evolve in their writing skills in our new writing workshop setting.
Science:
Our Sprout Kids have left the nest! It was so cool to see the students' excitement each time we brought out the Sprout Kids from their homes. As scientists, we have completed our data collection. In the coming week, we will be working hard on figuring out what that data means and what might have been the cause of our results (the grass grew in the dark?!). Here are some more great pictures of your scientists hard at work:
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