No School on Friday, October 24th! The KSD staff is traveling to local businesses on Friday to learn more about and discuss job opportunities our students may have after graduating from the KSD.
Math
This week in math, the 5th graders reviewed what they had learned about adding and subtracting decimals and solving story problems. All fifth grade students completed the Unit 2 assessment on Thursday. Fourth graders continued to work on multiplying single digit by two digit numbers and two digit by two digit numbers. Students were exposed to many different methods of multiplication, most recently to the "short-cut" method which is the more traditional method. Third grade focused on continuing to learn and practice multiplication facts including the 7's, 8's and 9's.
Reading
This week's theme was theme! Together, we created an anchor chart listing the most important points of theme: it's the lesson of the story, it's what you learn from the whole story, it can be seen or applied to other books. We worked with theme as a whole group, in book clubs and in small groups. All students that participated in book clubs finished their books by Thursday, the 23rd. New books will be selected next week!
Writing:
We continued to practice personal narrative writing. Many students are taking advantage of the current season and writing stories about things that are spooky or haunted!
Social Studies:
The fall of the Aztecs and Incas was the focus of social studies this week. We discussed how it would feel if a stranger showed up on our doorstep and asked us to change our religious beliefs, our language, the way we grow and eat our food and the way we raise our children. Most students were very vocal in their opinions-no way would they be ok with that! Next week we will continue to talk about other conquistadors and explorers as they move towards America.
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