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| Reading 20 minutes will add 1.8 million words to your child's language in one school year! Please read each night!!!! |
This week has been busy and great fun! In math, we have been working on place value and the base ten system through games called Close to 100, How Many Steps? and 101-200 Bingo. These activities help students use multiple strategies such as find groups of numbers to put together (i.e. multiples), identify patterns (like skip counting by 10's and 1's) to strengthen mental math computations, and develop accountable talk using new math vocabulary.
In our Unit of Inquiry, students learned what we eat might not be what the package says... it might just be disgusting! We continue to explore our food books and learn how conventions of non-fiction texts help us understand important facts and what the text is really saying. We are also reading for a purpose: Finding answers to wonders we've posed as a community. These wonders continue to grow and drive us towards several lines of inquiry: How our food is distributed? How our food is produced/grown? What affects people and food choices? At times, global and food scarcity has come up as well.
We continue to work on our first writing piece and our taking it through the writing process. Students are working on choosing stronger adjectives and verbs using a thesaurus.
Lastly, we have a field trip to the farm this week. Please pack a little extra snack and wear sneakers. A hat might be a good idea, too. Any other questions, please email me: michaelr@tashschool.org That's it for now. Have a wonderful week! Check out this week's pics below!
Homework:
Read 20 minutes each night, plus the following...
Monday: Number Patterns
Tuesday: No School Uzbekistan Independence Day
Wednesday: IXL Math Grade 4 A.1-A.3 Number Sense
Thursday: Word Problems: Illustrate and Solve
Friday: Read and Relax! Remember 1.8 million words! Elementary Camp Out!
We continue to add Wonders about food!
Morning activities have been a blast!
Watch as we uncover the mysterious patterns and create rules to help us add, subtract, multiply, and divide!
Nothing is better than having your head stuck in a book! Food Book Exploration!
Ms. Shakhnoza came in and we had an Uzbek Tea Party. Raisins, Tea, and Nan (Bread) was had by all.
Harlin is our first Owl of the Week and she runs a community meeting (ignore the sad faces - they were just posing!)
Working hard, or hardly working? Of course, Working hard!
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