February 13, 2017
Dear Parents,
Happy Valentine’s Week!! As has been mentioned in the last couple of blogs, since Valentine’s Day is on a school day, we will be celebrating it with a small party on Tuesday. Students may bring in Valentines to give to their classmates. We will pass out Valentines and play some Valentine related games on Tuesday afternoon from 3:15 till 3:55 pm. We are keeping it very simple!!
Math
We have continued working on adding and subtracting with renaming within 1,000. This is a very complicated standard (remember, it was started at the end of the first quarter). All of the time has been very worthwhile, as students are really picking up on the renaming, because it is all done through decomposing and composing numbers students are really understanding how to break down and rename the different place values.
This past week we focused on addition using branch method on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. On Thursday students worked on subtraction using the branch method with renaming in the tens place. Here's an example...
762 - 43 = 1. Decompose numbers by place value.
↙↓↘ ↙ ↘ 2. Group hundreds. Group tens. Group ones.
700 60 2 40 3 3. Subtract hundreds. Subtract tens. Subtract ones.
(700 - 0) + (60 - 40) + (2 - 3) 4. Watch out for negative differences.
700 + 20 - 1 = 5. Write and solve renamed equation.
720 - 1 = 719
Here's the homework for the week...
Monday
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Worksheet: Subtraction Branching with renaming 10’s
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Tuesday
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No Homework due to Valentine’s Day
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Wednesday
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Worksheet: Subtraction Branching with renaming 1’s and 10’s
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Thursday
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No Homework enjoy the long President’s Day Weekend
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Language
In Language we are finishing up our work with commas in friendly letters. Students have been practicing using commas through letter writing to Groundhog Phil, expressing their opinion of his prediction of 6 more weeks of winter. We will assess on commas this week and move on to the punctuation mark, apostrophe.
Writing
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| Peer Editing and Revising in Action. |
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| Editing and Revising. |
Research, research, research...our writing has focused on researching student selected Famous People. Students have used their chromebooks and books to fill out their notetakers. Students have created a slide show about their Famous Person. Each slide show includes slides on the following topics... title slide, birth date and place, childhood, reason for their fame, other interesting facts, and a resource slide. Most students have finished this project and are working on revising and editing. Famous People slideshows will be completed this week and ready to share. The students have done a great job researching and creating their slide shows.
Projects
Students have been actively working on their decade time line projects. Pairs of students are working on completing notetakers. They are learning about the presidents, important news, inventions, transportation, music, children’s books and movies, and much more as they research their decade.
Remember that President’s Day is coming up on Monday, February 20th, there will be no school. Wishing everyone a Happy Valentine’s Day and a Happy President’s Day!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Bloomfield and Miss Garcia
A few more photos...in our read aloud book, Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Laura, Mary, and Ma make butter. This week we decided to make our own butter too! It made for a tasty snack on bread.
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