January 28-February 1

Hope you had a great weekend! Let's get to work!

Notes for the week...



**For the next few weeks, we will be using personal electronic devices regularly in class for Language Arts, Reading, and Math.  Please allow your child to bring his/her tablet or laptop to school. We will be using the applications Google Drive, Google Docs, and Google Slides, so please ensure that these apps have been installed on your child's device.  We use these apps throughout the year for many different projects!

This week in class...

Language Arts

In Language Arts this week, we will continue with our new class novel Holes, by Louis Sachar.  Students will continue using Google Slides to respond to what they read throughout the book.

This week, we'll begin looking at Greek and Latin roots to help us understand the meaning of words we encounter that we don't know. We will begin with the roots chron, dec, tract, therm, uni. There will be a quiz on Friday over the words that we study.

Math

This week in math class we will continue to work with fractions. Students will be gathering videos to practice independent investigation and self-paced learning. Students will organize their own videos in their digital study guides. This week we will look specifically at finding factors as a tool for comparing fractions, finding equivalents fractions, and also finding the simplest form of a fraction. Students should bring their devices to class if possible. We will have a short quiz on Friday to assess the skills we have covered in our fractions unit to date.

Homework:

Monday: One Xtramath.org lesson, find and watch two videos explaining
greatest common factors and add any necessary vocabulary to your Study-Guide

Tuesday: One Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL K.9
Wednesday: One Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL K.8
Thursday: One Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL K.10
Friday: Relax!

Science
This week we'll begin building our eco-columns, which will model both a terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem.  In addition, we will be setting up our Science Project investigations for our Elementary Science Fair coming up in April!  Students will be investigating the rate of decomposition for different man-made materials.

Thank you for all of your support, parents! Please feel free to email us if you have
any questions.

Ms. Amy and Mr. Andrew