It was a bit of a crazy week in my world this week with two days of substitutes so I could attend district trainings. I am thinking I should have had a substitute blogger this week to share what went on in my classroom! I'll do a quick update for math and language arts kids and let you get on with your weekend planning... Oh and by the way, the answers to last week's rebus puzzles was: Camera - c + can = American Ant + Ark + Sick - S + A = Antarctica Third grade math just completed our unit on long multiplication and division work. We are in the middle of another unit on measurement that covers the concept of volume and other measures of capacity and weight. We have one more unit on probability and that will get us through the end of the year. Fourth grade math just finished up a unit on fractions, decimals, and percents and the conversions necessary to switch between those three ways to represent numbers. The class did GREAT on our last test and you should see your child's copy in their Friday Folder (unless they decided to fix their mistakes.) This week we began a very short unit on symmetry and isometric geometry (think rotations, reflections, and translations of shapes.) We'll also throw in the concepts related to negative numbers (since that is the reflection of the number line.) Fifth grade math students are continuing to check on their stocks and make trades. We have about 2 more weeks of money making! We are finishing a unit cowering number concepts like negative number operations, order of operations, graphing inequalities, and basic algebra. The test for that will be on Tuesday. We'll wrap up the year with rate/ratio work and some probability fun. Language arts/creativity students are hard at work just like the math kids in my class. Here is a quick update on what we are up to... Third grade language arts/creativity kids are reading "Horton's Miraculous Mechanisms" for our literature circles and creating magazine monsters with descriptive paragraphs during our creativity time. There are some crazy creatures that were begun this week. Can't wait to see how they look when we wrap up this project next week. Fifth grade language arts students are reading "Tuck Everlasting" and having great discussions on whether living forever is a good thing or not. We have also begun the process of writing/adapting children's picture books into plays that we will perform the last week of school for kindergarteners.
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