April 20, 2015
Dear Parents,
What a strange week!!! Between crazy windy weather (You got to LOVE spring in Nevada!!) and the Tuesday power outage, it was a very different week! At Oasis we are all hoping for a calm week, as all our older students (3rd grade and up) are involved with the Smarter Balance Testing.
Math
Students continued working with the concept of equal groups and multiplication. We used arrays to show multiplication, while writing the equation. Students used repeated addition and multiplication equations to go with the array.
Multiplication was also the focus of our word problems this week. As we work through the problems students are using the same steps that we have used when working out addition and subtraction word problems. Circle the question, flip the question into an answer statement, reread the word problem underlining important information, and finally determining a strategy to use. As we have worked through the multiplication problems, we are drawing lots of pictures to solve the word problems.
The last part of the week we started exploring division. Students were given 15 cubes (whole) and asked to put them into 3 groups (parts). We then took the 15 cubes and put them into 5 groups. Finally students divided the 15 cubes into 2 groups. Students found that they had a group of 7 and a group of 8. When told that both groups had to be equal students learned that they would have 7 in each group with 1 cube leftover.
Homework
Mon. Workbook pages 129-130
Tues. Test B
Wed. IXL T.4 Count Sides and Shapes
Thurs. IXL T.1 Identify 2-Dimensional Shapes
Writing
Students were very busy working on writing their persuasive writing piece. Students came up with a wide variety of topics. They used the acronym OREO to organize their writing. O=State your opinion, R=Give a reason (students had to come up with 2 reasons), E=Explain or give examples, and the final O=Restate your opinion. After filling out their notetaker students completed their rough draft.
Language
Students reviewed and assessed on prefixes. We started our work with dictionary skills. Students reviewed using alphabetical order. Our work with dictionary skills will continue this week with guide words.
Projects
We started new projects this week. Our project will focus on plants, animals, and habitats. This week we planted radish seeds and are growing them under different circumstances. Students will be working through the scientific method. One group of seeds will be recieving sun and water, another will recieve sun and no water, and the
third group will recieve water but no sunlight. Students will be making observations over the next week or two.
We also discussed how seeds move. This started as a topic of discussion. Students had some very good ideas including--wind, water, and animals. We watched a short video that confirmed our discussion points. Finally we put some socks on over our shoes and walked to the park in an attempt to pick up some seeds. Upon returning we wet the socks down with water, placed the socks in a zip lock bag, and taped the bags to the windows to see if we can germinate any of the seeds we might have picked up.
Well as you can see our first week back from Spring Break was a busy one. Wishing you all a wonderful week!!
Sincerely,
Anne Bloomfield
Here's some information from Mrs. Jackson...
SBAC is upon our older students. Be thinking about our Oasis superstars during the next few weeks. (I know our 1st and 2nd graders will be jealous when they see all of the amazing breakfasts the 3rd graders are having, but for the kids taking these tests and their families, these can be stressful times.)
Mrs. Jackson
Math
Students continued working with the concept of equal groups and multiplication. We used arrays to show multiplication, while writing the equation. Students used repeated addition and multiplication equations to go with the array.
Multiplication was also the focus of our word problems this week. As we work through the problems students are using the same steps that we have used when working out addition and subtraction word problems. Circle the question, flip the question into an answer statement, reread the word problem underlining important information, and finally determining a strategy to use. As we have worked through the multiplication problems, we are drawing lots of pictures to solve the word problems.
The last part of the week we started exploring division. Students were given 15 cubes (whole) and asked to put them into 3 groups (parts). We then took the 15 cubes and put them into 5 groups. Finally students divided the 15 cubes into 2 groups. Students found that they had a group of 7 and a group of 8. When told that both groups had to be equal students learned that they would have 7 in each group with 1 cube leftover.
Mon. Workbook pages 129-130
Tues. Test B
Wed. IXL T.4 Count Sides and Shapes
Thurs. IXL T.1 Identify 2-Dimensional Shapes
Writing
Students were very busy working on writing their persuasive writing piece. Students came up with a wide variety of topics. They used the acronym OREO to organize their writing. O=State your opinion, R=Give a reason (students had to come up with 2 reasons), E=Explain or give examples, and the final O=Restate your opinion. After filling out their notetaker students completed their rough draft.
Language
Students reviewed and assessed on prefixes. We started our work with dictionary skills. Students reviewed using alphabetical order. Our work with dictionary skills will continue this week with guide words.
Projects
We started new projects this week. Our project will focus on plants, animals, and habitats. This week we planted radish seeds and are growing them under different circumstances. Students will be working through the scientific method. One group of seeds will be recieving sun and water, another will recieve sun and no water, and the third group will recieve water but no sunlight. Students will be making observations over the next week or two.
We also discussed how seeds move. This started as a topic of discussion. Students had some very good ideas including--wind, water, and animals. We watched a short video that confirmed our discussion points. Finally we put some socks on over our shoes and walked to the park in an attempt to pick up some seeds. Upon returning we wet the socks down with water, placed the socks in a zip lock bag, and taped the bags to the windows to see if we can germinate any of the seeds we might have picked up.Well as you can see our first week back from Spring Break was a busy one. Wishing you all a wonderful week!!
Sincerely,
Anne Bloomfield
Here's some information from Mrs. Jackson...
April 19, 2015
Hello families!
SBAC is upon our older students. Be thinking about our Oasis superstars during the next few weeks. (I know our 1st and 2nd graders will be jealous when they see all of the amazing breakfasts the 3rd graders are having, but for the kids taking these tests and their families, these can be stressful times.)
I have 3 intermediate students in my home and I feel for them this week. We have such thoughtful and talented students and teachers here at Oasis; I rest assured that we are prepared and will represent our school well on a state and nationwide level. Yet, as Mrs. Green said in her own blog this evening, I can’t stress how important it is not to STRESS!
In our own neck of the woods, we will continue carrying on with higher level discussion groups during our Guided Reading. I really appreciate your support signing our nightly reading homework. The quality of our daily reading discussions improved greatly last week and I am looking forward to beginning 2 new chapter books this week as well. The students are all remembering their new folders and this seems to be a more effective way of getting our materials back and forth from school to home. Thank you for this extra effort! This week we hope to begin writing a piece that we can publish before the end of the year.
Hope your family has a low-stress week with lots of rest, protein-filled breakfasts and “early” softball games!
Mrs. Jackson
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