End-of-Week Update, 9/6

What we’ve been up to:

We have completed so much during our 2^nd week in Room 20!  We’ve been doing Wordly Wise this week.  We completed Lesson 1.  We mastered most of the words and benefitted from learning all those words this week!  J  We are going to start reading our first read aloud book, The Sisters Grimm.  We’re curious about it and we already have a lot of questions!  In writing, we have awesome story ideas!  We thought of our top 10 best and worst times, we thought about turning point stories in our lives, and we thought of stories when we felt strong feelings (like scared, embarrassed, etc.)  We pictured our stories in our heads and timelined our stories and even included planning boxes to help us write next week.  In math, we made ballpark estimates and added large numbers using the traditional method.  We created a “watch out” list  for addition with all the things we need to watch out for when we add.  We used base-10 blocks to build numbers.  We reviewed standard and expanded form for numbers – it’s like a Lego pirate ship!  (Ask a Room 20 student to find out what that means!)  On Friday in the gym there were music teachers from all different Franklin schools showing us different musical instruments, telling us what they were, and how to play them.  We learned about string, woodwind, and brass instruments.  (The strings are actually horse hairs.  Don’t worry, no horses were harmed in the making of these instruments!)  They even played music from “Star Wars.”  We have a blue sheet in our folders this weekend with more information!  We’ve mastered so much this week!  Can’t wait to do more stuff next week!  Love, Room 20

 

Reminders from Mrs. Adams:

·         Remember to check out the upcoming dates on the right for important events in the month of September.

·         Next week, students will begin their first engineering project!  We will have a special guest speaker to kick off our project.  The two goals of the project are engineering (to fulfill our technology / engineering science standards) and cooperation (to build communication skills and work as a team toward a common goal).  Stay tuned for photos!

·         Keep the terrarium jars coming!

 

Have a great weekend!