Investigators - 2/17/23

 Hello All,

Thank you to everyone who helped to make our Valentine’s Day Ice Cream Party a success! 

I hope EVERYONE has a WONDERFUL Mid-Winter Break and we will see you back on Monday, February 27th.

In our Math Rotations this week we have been working on: 

Mental Math: In this rotation, students have been working independently on their Mental Math Book called “Addition and Subtraction.” 

At the Teacher’s Desk: In this rotation, students have been working on their assigned pages in their “Go Math” workbooks, Multiplication Facts and Strategies AND Multiply 2-Digit Numbers AND Divide by 1-Digit Numbers

Technology: In this rotation, students have been working on their “Go Math/Think Central” assignments or IXL on their Chromebooks. 

Have Fun With Games/Red Bin Work: In this rotation, students have been working on assigned pages in their workbooks or worksheets on various addition/subtraction skills or answering fact fluency questions in order to take their turn in the games played on Fun Fridays.

The standards that were used were: 3.OA.A.2, 3.OA.A.3, 4.OA.B.4

In Social Studies we have been working on identifying questions economists ask in examining the United States (e.g., What is produced? How is it produced? How much is produced? Who gets what is produced? What role does the government play in the economy, and Describing  some characteristics of a market economy (e.g., private property rights, voluntary exchange, competition, consumer sovereignty, incentives, specialization). Explain relationships among themes, ideas, and characters within and across texts to create a deeper understanding by categorizing and classifying, comparing and contrasting, or drawing parallels across time and culture. Identify and describe the structure, elements, features, and purpose of a variety of informational genres including autobiography/ biography, personal essay, almanac, and newspaper. Identify and describe the structure, elements, and purpose of a variety of narrative genres including poetry, myths, legends, fantasy, and adventure. 

The standards that were used were: 4 - E1.0.1, 4 - E1.0.2, R.CM.04.03, R.IT.04.01, R.NT.04.02

Thank you,

Ms. Chantel

This week in ELA we finished up our portfolio meetings and now all have new goals in reading for the end of the school year. We continued practice on reviewing books and worked with a partner this week to see how our opinions can differ. We finished up our spelling unit and will get new units after break. This week we also started "The Great Mail Race" . We were invited by an elementary school in Alabama to join. The school wrote us a letter explaining how they are writing to one school in every state and asking them to fill out a survey answering questions about their school and state. Their goal is to compare how things are different around the country. Our students have decided they would also like to learn about schools in other states. Each student has picked a state and we are researching what schools we would like to send the surveys to. As we get responses back, we will mark the state off on a map. We hope to hear back from all 50 states! :)  I hope everyone has a great mid-winter break!  -Ms. Jamie