Thursday and Friday will include some fun winter/holiday activities for the students. On Thursday, they will have the opportunity to join their grade-level classmates for some fun holiday rotation activities. Each classroom will have a different activity for them to participate in. I think that they'll have a lot of fun! On Friday, we'll have a little bit of time in the morning to celebrate together as a class. Ms. Gabbara and I have treats and a game planned for them. Then they have their music special and a school sing-a-long. Since Friday is a 1/2 day, we will not have time for much more than that. Please let me know if you have any questions about our celebrations.
Here's a recap of our week:
English Language Arts:
- We continued to work on comparing and contrasting information from a text.
- The students began learning their parts for Readers Theater.
- We began to revise/edit our persuasive essays and personal essays.
- We also used a process called Step-Up to Writing to help us better organize our thoughts.
- Our math tasks in class have been heading towards the concept of division.
- We have been exploring factors, multiples, prime, and composite numbers
- We have conducted 2 more experiments involving heat transfer. We also simulated an experiment in the computer lab.
- Our next form of energy transfer to investigate will be electricity.