Hey...did you realize that 2 x 11 = 22?!? And today's date has those factors within it?? Cool, huh? I guess that that's the mathematical teacherness in me...always noticing things like that. Well anyway, Happy Tuesday all and Happy Birthday Mr. President, George Washington!!! We are thankful for everything you did to help establish our country and for our day off we get to celebrate your honor! Today, we got to welcome a brand NEW Dunbar student who is here to help us: Margaret Henderson!!! She is Kenneth's sister and we are so excited that she'll be here working with us in the mornings!
Reading:
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| in the middle is where the two concepts are alike |
I gave back our AMAZING spelling tests...I mean, WOWZA...did we ever do GREAT or what?!? I am so proud! I even ran out of homework passes to give out and had to run and make more! It was frantic but certainly for a great cause...I LOVE that that happened!!! Today, we began studying the informational text structure of Comparing & Contrasting. Texts can be laid out in 4 different structures: descriptive, cause & effect, chronological sequence, or compare & contrast. Our emphasis is on comparing and contrasting and locating the signal words within a text that can 'clue us in' to this particular structure (like, difference, different, whereas, similarly, unlike, alike, etc.). We read an informational text passage entitled, "The truth about bats" to compare and contrast birds with bats. Based upon the information we located in the passage, we created a large, interactive class Venn Diagram which is the quintessential (see that WOW! word in use?!?) graph for demonstrating similarities and differences in information. This will be the concept of focus in all of our reading groups and activities for this week.
HOMEWORK: I passed out our spelling packets which are due BY FRIDAY. TONIGHT: please complete ONE activity from the "Spelling tic-tac-toe" page to turn in to me tomorrow. ALSO, please read the 2 next chapters in your chapter book.
Math:
we took a 90-second timed test per usual and then began re-emphasizing strategies for multiplying multi-digit numbers. For independent practice, we worked on pages 136-138 in our workbooks. We are coming to the end of this chapter so the final test over it will be by the end of this week and we will then begin division.
Here are some AWESOME multiplication games, activities, and powerpoints you can visit at home! Please check them out!
HOMEWORK: complete WORKBOOK pages 141 - 144.
PM activities:
we took a test on fossils to see how we could do given the knowledge we've obtained so far and began working on our second On-Demand writing pieces that are due to Ms. Sharp by Monday.
well wishes...
Be thinking of our Academic Team as we began our District competition TONIGHT!!! This is the GSE Governor's Cup team with is part of the KAAC membership - the ONLY state and nationally recognized academic team competition! We are kind of like our school's sports team :) Don't be confused, it is very different from the challenge cup teams because only 4th and 5th graders can compete and you must tryout to qualify to even be part of the team (Mr. Hilton and I coach it and last year, we placed THIRD in the entire region of well over 30+ schools, including private AND magnet schools!). We hope to soar even higher this year as District is the first leg of this competition and we must place in it in order to even be able to move on to the Regional competition in March. The rest of our District competition is THIS Saturday, February 26th. Again, keep us in your thoughts and wish us well!
I hope your Tuesday night finds you well and wonderful and here's to hoping for a warm up like last week!
xoxo,
Mrs. Thomas
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| MR. Thomas thought you all needed this pic for a laugh! har har harrrrr..... |
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