Technology
This week students began working on Lego Robotics with Ms. Arlyn and Mrs. Christiano. This unit will include a lot of collaboration and teamwork as well as working with models, coding and adapting robots by modifying. This unit is loaded with both science and transferable skill standards. Make sure to ask your child what he/she is working on with robotics!
Reading Workshop
We launched our MYSTERY unit this week! This is always an exciting unit that requires students to read very carefully and think like detectives. Students are already getting excited about reading many mysteries, often from a mystery series. Students participated in a fun mystery scavenger hunt in library class on Thursday. They followed clues to locate mystery books, many of them were checked out by students after our hunt. Our EMES and classroom library are filled with many mystery book choices! Popular series include: Encyclopedia Brown, A to Z Mysteries, Nate the Great, Cam Jansen, The Boxcar Children, Jigsaw Jones, Nancy Drew, The Buddy Mysteries. This unit will continue for the next few weeks, ask your child how he/she is growing like a detective. Currently we are asking ourselves two big questions...
- What is the mystery?
- Who is/are the crime solver(s)?
Writing Workshop
Students are currently working on writing pieces of their choice. Many students have paired up with another author to create a collaborative piece. Students are trying out graphic novels as well as poetry and fictional narratives. Next week, we'll launch our opinion writing unit by completing our unit pre-assessments.
Spelling/Grammar
We are currently concentrating on parts of speech. We have covered nouns-both proper and common as well as singular and plural. Students are being careful about noticing and discussing the fact that many words can be either a noun or an adjective depending on how they are used in a sentence.
March Kindness Project
We're building some Kindness Trees outside our classroom on the bulletin board. We're making a very conscious effort to remain kind and positive throughout our days. Students are writing explicit, specific examples of things they have done to spread kindness. We're looking forward to watching our trees really bloom as we welcome Spring!
Math
In math, we're continuing our work with fractions by adding and subtracting fractions that have common denominators. We are also working on rounding whole numbers to the nearest ten or hundred.
Students came back from the winter vacation ready to take the next step in their multiplication work as well. This week we used Cuisenaire rods to build models of 2-digit by 1-digit equations and then we solved the equations using partial products.
Assessments
Right before break we completed our Civil Rights Unit which you had an opportunity to see at our EMES Celebration of Learning. We're sure you'll agree that the projects were terrific and students did an amazing job with this work. This work also addressed multiple standards and performance indicators-nineteen to be exact! Today, students are bringing home the assessment pieces that were included in this work. Students have four different rubrics.
- The "Overall" Civil Rights Project Assessment Rubric
- The Google Slides Assessment Rubric
- The Oral Presentation Assessment Rubric
- The Collaboration Rubric-(there are 2 of these, one done by each student, one by Mrs. Christy.
Upcoming Events
- Student Led Conferences April 5th and 6th. Please find the blue sign-up sheet in your child's folder and return to us ASAP.
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