End-of-Week Update 9/13

What we’ve been up to:

This week we’ve been up to a lot of stuff!  This week we learned about rounding.  We drew two branches to show our two choices (for staying or rounding up).  We finished up learning about subtraction and we made a list of mistakes that we should “watch out” for.  On Friday, we had Mr. Adams come in to teach us about engineering.  We are going to build puff mobiles with our team.  We learned from Mr. Adams that engineers can build almost anything!  We also learned that cooperation is the key to building something successfully.  Check out the video he showed us below - "Engineers are Cool!"  In writing, we finished our first personal narrative drafts!  We discussed how important revising is so we can make our stories better.  For example, we learned how to write similes.  We also learned that we want our stories to have a good balance of internal and external details.  In art, we made abstract collages.  We are reading books and we started writing letters to Mrs. Adams about our books.  We can’t wait to get letters back from Mrs. Adams!  We had our very first chorus this week and it was excessively fun!  Mrs. MacMurray and Mrs. Shepherd are looking out for celebrity singers next week, so we are going to try our best and work as hard as we can.  In science, we learned about different weather tools and how they are used.  Some of the weather tools we learned are thermometer, barometer, sling psychrometer, rain gauge, anemometer, and wind vane.  We’ve finished Lesson 2 of Wordly Wise – we now know 30 new words!  In poetry, we are writing bio poems about ourselves.  We’re typing them next week.  I bet next week will be just as awesome as this week!

 

 

Reminders from Mrs. Adams / What’s coming up:

• I enjoyed meeting so many parents this past week at our parent orientation!  If you were unable to come, I hope that you found the packet of information in your child's take home folder.  Please be in touch with any questions or concerns!  Also, please review, sign, and return the blue homework policy sheet located in the back of the packet.
• Thursday is School Picture Day! 
• Friday will be our first math test!  It will be on place value, rounding, addition, and subtraction.  I emailed a review packet that can be done at home to help in preparing for this test.  It is optional and does not need to be sent back to school.  Please let me know if you have any questions!  Please look in "Useful Documents" to the right for the study guide and at-home review packet to download.
• Keep the terrarium jars coming!

Happy Sunday!