Volume 22: February 1, 2016

NOTICE: FRIDAY'S ASA BUDDIES IS CANCELLED, 5 FEB.

Hello there! Here is a brief update of this week's events and what's to come.

• Celebrated "Atom Day" with grade 2
• Worked ridiculously hard to finish and watch our Puppetpal migration films
• Played in the snow
• Learned about a stanza is and how rhyme can be used within it
• Created word ladders, or chose a word that best describes our mom. Then found antonyms and synonyms for that word
• Learned about why people have picket lines during a strike, immigration, and migrants' lives during the early 1920's in California and Mexico, courteous of our Esperanza Rising read-aloud
• Took our final assessment on statistics, data collection, and why it is important in the real-world and to us
• Will start a new unit of inquiry on Weather
• Will dabble with the concept of probability - just wait for those pictures

Please continue to work on book shares, read each night, and just have fun the snow with your family. Hopefully the snow will still be there?! Enjoy the week. 

Homework:

Monday: Area and Perimeter Activities

Tuesday: Time and Money & Misleading Graphs Activities

Wednesday: IXL Probability Grade 4 W.1 & W.2

Thursday: Mean, Median, Mode, and Range & Data from Surveys Activities

Friday: You know it: Read and Relax:)

 "Atom" Day - A celebration of air and water!

 What more can I say? Centers are fun!

 We balance many things, including pencils, when we learn math.

Line graphs about our world's population over time. Oh, yeah!