Hi room 5 families! We are 3 weeks away from our school wide exhibition on Wednesday, May 22. The students have been working very hard to researching the rainforest and learning about its importance to chocolate. They can't wait to share what they have learned with you. Please read on below to see what we have been working in in room 5 and ways to support your child at home. Room 5 students are very talented! We had 12 students from our class perform in the talent show. Our student performers showed risk taking and shared their passion with the entire school. Our classroom also showed the school what it means to be a good friend and audience member by allowing students to take risks to perform in front of everyone. Below are room 5 performers. Here we are researching about the different layers of the rainforest and the different types of creates and plants that can be found in each layer. We are learning how to read informational text and highlight what we think is important information. After highlighting important information, we then draw a quick sketch that helps us remember or think about the important fact and reconnect back to the highlighted section. This is part of research based literacy strategy called Guided Language Acquisition Design (GLAD) to help students access more complex text. Parents can ask, "From your reading, what are the layers of the rainforest?" "What kinds of animals or plants can you find in each one?" "How do you know if something is an important idea or fact in a text?" Here we are in math playing make 100. We are practicing adding numbers to make groups of 10 and racing to make 100. Parents can ask, "how many ones make up a group of 10?" "How many groups of ten are in 100?" In math we are also learning about telling time and how it is a type of measurement. In first grade students learn to tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks. Through my own experience in teaching to tell time, any type of physical movement (using arms to mimic hour and minute hand) and labeling analog clocks with minutes and o'clock) really helps students grasp this abstract concept. We launched our math unit by creating our own paper analog clocks to practice on and reading The Grouchy Ladybug, which uses time and clocks as a way to track the story. We are also learning to match digital, analog and written times so that students are connecting the various ways time can be shared. Parents can ask, "What does the short hand tell you?" "What does the long hand tell you?" "How many minutes are there in an our?" "If the hour hand is in between a number which number do you say?" Here we are learning about the process of making chocolate and the collective effort that it takes to create a bar of chocolate. Ms. Dorrance designed a fair trained lesson where students worked in teams that each had a special role in manufacturing chocolate. Each team was paid a certain amount of money for their output. After they were done "working' they students charted how much money each group made and talked about why it was fair or not fair. In Fundations we are learning about r-controlled vowels. When a vowel is followed by an "r" it makes the vowel say a different sound. Below is a picture chart to help students learn the different sounds. Parents can help students think of different words that have r-controlled sounds.
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