The Royal Family

Yippee!! L-O-N-G Division began today and we are thinking of it as the Royal Family. Daddy-Divide --Mommy-Multiply
Sister-Subtract, and Brother-Bring Down. If your child can tell you the 5th member of the family that is not always "hanging" out with the rest, and comes in at the end, write "Division" in the planner. Again, please don't help your child with this process as I want them to do it just as we are and use the same vocabulary that we do. Like I said, I will video a group doing it and put it on the blog so you can see it at work.
Also, in math we worked on line plots. If your child can draw one for you and tell you what an outlier is, write line plot in the planner.
Today, we finished all book clubs. Tomorrow, we will be taking our SRI test which will show their reading growth thus far. I am excited to see positive results. Then on Friday, each of them will be making a report card for a book character that they just read. Should be fun to see the grades they give them for certain attributes and then the comments they write. Then next Monday, we will be starting new book club books.
Also, on Friday, each of my reading kids will be choosing a biography book to read at home for their nightly reading. They will read it, write down key ideas & facts on sticky notes, and then they will use these to make a final project along with a timeline.
Again, this will be done at home.
In Social Studies today we partnered with Ms. Erickson's class and did a review of the NE, SE, and Midwest regions. So exciting to see that they are retaining lots of the information they are learning.
We also started our geography challenge for the SW which has only 4 states in it so I won't be sending home a study map for the states and capitals. They can use the one they already have.
Remember HE/PE tomorrow.


Have a great night.