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Feburary 27th, 2026
Feburary 27th, 2026
Dear Parents,
🌟 This Week’s Highlights
✖️ Math: The Fact Family Reunion
We’ve been busy hosting "reunions" for numbers! Students are learning that multiplication and division are best friends. We’ve been using Fact Families to see how $3 \times 4 = 12$ is the same "family" as $12 \div 3 = 4$.
Ask your student: "If 5, 6, and 30 are in a family, what are the 4 number sentences they can make?"
✍️ Writing: Authors at Work
Our informative books are getting a "glow-up!" We’ve been using Mentor Texts (books by professional authors) to see how the pros do it. Students are currently:
Adding Transition Words (First, However, In Conclusion).
Writing Hooks to grab the reader's attention.
Formatting their chapters like real non-fiction books!
🌍 Social Studies: We are Global Citizens
We took a "trip" around the world this week to learn about Globalization. We discussed how the things we use every day (like our shoes or the food we eat) come from all over the planet. We also practiced Active Listening—showing our friends we care about their ideas by giving them our full attention and "whole-body listening."
🌍 Español: La próxima semana los estudiantes continuarán practicando la escritura de opiniones. Trabajarán en expresar su idea principal y apoyarla con razones y ejemplos claros. También utilizarán una lista de revisión para asegurarse de que su trabajo incluya todos los elementos necesarios, como una opinión clara, detalles que la respalden y el uso correcto de mayúsculas y puntuación.
Learning Goal
Students learn from mentor texts to inspire revision
Writers review the organizational structures that underlie the books they already made. They will find small ways to revise their books to highlight those structures for their readers.
Learning Goal
Los estudiantes pueden revisar sus propio trabajos.
La próxima semana los estudiantes continuarán practicando la escritura de opiniones. Trabajarán en expresar su idea principal y apoyarla con razones y ejemplos claros.
También utilizarán una lista de revisión para asegurarse de que su trabajo incluya todos los elementos necesarios, como una opinión clara, detalles que la respalden y el uso correcto de mayúsculas y puntuación.
Leer en casa un libro de ficción, luego hacer un resumen.
Learning Goal
Students investigate two different interpretations of division - sharing and grouping - by solving story problems.
Mathematicians investigate two different interpretations of division - sharing and grouping - by solving story problems that elicit one interpretation or the other, and then sharing and discussing their work as a class. As well as, interpreting quotients of whole numbers; write story problems or describe problem situations to match a division expression or equation.
Learning Goal
This week, we finished our Globalization unit. Students reviewed the opportunities and challenges of globalization and learned how to build an argument using a claim, evidence, and a counterargument. They also took part in a class debate about whether globalization is always good.
To end the unit, students reflected on how they can make a positive impact in a global world. They shared ideas such as recycling, reducing waste, and supporting local products, and contributed to a class Global Citizens’ Pledge Poster.
Do simple experiments using materials at home, such as observing plants or testing how things grow.
Observe and record things like weather, plants, or animals and write down what they notice.
Learning Goal
March 10: Big Q Day
March 11: Field Trip
March 12: Healthy Habits Field Day
Big Questions Day
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