Hi room 5 families! We can't believe how fast the time is going by. We have been busy working on our superhero project, learning new spelling tools in Fundations, working on word problems. Read on to see what we have been up to in room 5 and for ways to support students at home. We had a very special visit from some more everyday heroes, fire fighters! Engine 22 came to visit us at school. We go tot meet with the fire chief and some of the fire fighters who work at stations 22. We learned about the tools fire fighters use as well as what it might look like and sound like if fire fighters come to help. Parents can ask their student, "What do fire fighters do? Do they work alone or in a team? How are fire fighters everyday heroes?" Ms. Tasi taught us about Dia de Los Muertos and how to make art with oil pastels to celebrate the holiday. We have been working very hard on our superhero project and shared some of our drafts with our high school buddies. We asked for feedback on our work. We can't wait for you to see it at our exhibition on Thursday, December 13! Some questions that parents can ask their student now are: "What is critique?" "Why do you do more than one draft?" Jog-a-thon was amazing (and hot)! Thank you to all of our awesome parents who helped make it possible! Here we are stretching before the run and then cheering on our 5th grade buddies. We are thankful for...
We made thankful pies and wrote down some things that we are grateful for in honor of Thanksgiving!
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Hi room 5 families! How is it already November? We are 5 weeks away from our school wide exhibition. Below are are some of the things we are working on through the week. We painted and decorated pumpkins on Halloween! Each student has picked a super power that they feel like they contribute to our school community. We are working on creating a symbol for our super power and turning it into hero costumes. Parents you can ask your child, "What is symbol?" "What symbol did you create for your power? Why?" We are also working on multiple drafts and learning that there is always room for us to grow and make changes to our working to make it even better. Below we are working on our drafts of our super power symbol. This week we got to visit our high school buddies in their classroom! We were excited to be in a 9th grade classroom at High Tech Media Arts. We have been working on reading just right books to our buddies. In math we are working on making making different combinations of 10 and 20. Here were are playing How many in a cup. We also play a quick game called "show me ___" where students use their fingers to show different ways to make a number. Parents can ask "Show how to make 10." "Can you show me another way?" In math we are also working on adding groups of numbers (this is the beginning of multiplication which students will dive into in 2nd grade). The focus of these problems is for students to add multiple groups and understand why they have specific groups of numbers. Below are two problems that we worked on as a class this past week. Students can practice this skill at home with everyday activities like setting the table "how many forks and knives or chopsticks do we need if there are 4 people eating dinner?".
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