Hi everyone,
I hope you're all enjoying this extra hour of sunlight, despite that crazy snow/hail storm! We have a fun week ahead of us. Read below for some information!
This Week's Remote Work: Please help your child to remember to put their completed remote work into their Take Home Folder to return to school. There are several highlighted assignments on this week's remote schedule. These assignments are "must-do" assignments and should be completed during your child's remote learning days. This week, the "must-do" assignments are:
Math practice pages: All About the Number and Parking Garage (Day 1 Remote Work)
Framing Your Thoughts subject sort and sentence writing (Day 1 Remote Work)
Word Study Written Sort--adding y to open syllables(Day 1 Remote Work)
Social Studies: Who are the Massachusett? Arlington representation (Day 2 Remote Work)
Dreambox
Lexia Core 5
Independent Reading
Lately in school...
Math: We've been doing a lot of thinking about how to solve subtraction situations. Students can solve problems that ask "how many more?" by adding up or subtracting back on a number lines. We have also been working on using related problems to solve more difficult subtraction problems. For example, students know that 300-150=150, so 312-150 must equal 162 because 312 is 12 more than 300 and you're taking away the same amount.
Reading: We've continued our Narrative Nonfiction unit and have read a bunch more amazing biographies to help us learn about summarizing and learning information. Some of our favorite books in this unit include Eugenie Clark: Shark Lady and The Brilliant Deep! We'll be finishing up our Reading to Learn unit this week and getting ready for Character Studies!
Writing: Students have been working so hard to add to their animal writing! While finishing up their chapters, students have been exploring the importance of transition words and phrases! We also began working on writing powerful introductions and conclusions by studying mentor texts. The creativity going into these written pieces is truly amazing!
Social Studies: We started a new social studies unit that is focused on Indigenous People, specifically the groups who lived/live in Massachusetts. We read an amazing book called Encounter that explores the perspective of a Taino boy who was living on the land that was claimed by European settlers. This week, students will take a look into who lived in what we now know as Arlington and what Arlington was best known for hundreds of years ago.
Science: We have been doing some new experiments using Mystery Science! Last week, we explored what clouds are really like and learned about how they're created. This week, we're taking our learning to the next level by learning about cloud types that predict storms!
That's all for now! Have a great week!Ms. McLellan