Two reminders:
1. Third graders should be returning permission slips for the DIA field trip. The trip will be on February 5th. Thank you to the parents that volunteered to chaperone! I think you will all have a lot of fun!
2. Fourth graders should be gathering supplies for their Economics Day good/service. I am still missing signed plans from a couple of students. I need these in ASAP! Remember, projects should not cost your family more than $10, and several of the ideas that have come in will be free! :)
Here's a recap from our shortened week:
English Language Arts
1. Third graders should be returning permission slips for the DIA field trip. The trip will be on February 5th. Thank you to the parents that volunteered to chaperone! I think you will all have a lot of fun!
2. Fourth graders should be gathering supplies for their Economics Day good/service. I am still missing signed plans from a couple of students. I need these in ASAP! Remember, projects should not cost your family more than $10, and several of the ideas that have come in will be free! :)
Here's a recap from our shortened week:
English Language Arts
- We continued looking for examples of cause and effect in the texts we read. We also created our own examples of cause and effect in the computer lab and using Thinking Maps.
- Third graders are getting to know the characters that they have chosen for their realistic fiction stories.
- Fourth graders have continued practicing how to find themes and evidence to support the theme in short stories.
- The students have been practicing solving and writing story problems that divide with compatible and non-compatible numbers. They are so creative!
- The students have been conducting experiments with magnetic and non-magnetic materials.
- The third graders have been reading non-fiction and fiction texts about force and friction.
- The fourth graders have been reading about various concepts involved in economics (i.e. supply and demand, consumer/producer, goods and services, scarcity, trade, needs/wants, etc.)