Week Ending May 17, 2019



                      in room 15, we strive to be
FOCUSED AND RELAXED
Weekly Update
for the Week Ending
Friday, May 17
                                                                                                                        
Dear Room 15 Families,

This week, we will be focusing on using our rainforest research to help us build our rainforest animal slides.  It would be helpful if you asked your child to login to his/her Google Drive account at home and show you what has been worked on so far.  If there is any problem with this, please let me know asap so that we can help solve it.  Your child will be more successful with this project is s/he has some access to this at home.  This is not required, but will allow students an abundance of time to play with fonts, background color, choosing images, layout of slides and just overall revision. 
Thanks so much to the adults that were able to join us on Friday’s trip to the Academy of Sciences.  The kids had fun, learned some stuff and got to enjoy a beautiful day outside during lunch.  Shawna, Leonie, Doug, Liz, Lindsay, Brooke and Kerryàwe could not have done this without you!
We are continuing our math routine focused around MATH FACT FLUENCY. Continued progress may require practice at home.  There are many resources to help build this skill.  In addition to flash cards and various workbooks, https://gregtangmath.com is a personal favorite and offers a whole bunch of options.  These include online games, printables, books and puzzles geared to help build math fact fluency in fun and productive ways.

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What We Did:
Reading
•In small groups, we read about one of the layers of the rainforest.  We took notes from print articles, books and websites. 

•We researched our animal of the rainforest.
Writing
•We synthesized information about the rainforest layer into a pic collage presentation.
Math
•We learned how to create and read multiplication arrays.
•We continued our math routine focused around math fact fluency.
Science/Social Studies
•We continued our study of the rainforest and the animals that live there.
•We “planted” seeds in water and put them in sunlight and charted their growth through root viewers.
Other stuff
•We heard from Christine Nesbit about her family’s trip to the rainforest.  We learned about the need to protect and preserve the rainforests of the world.
•We had fun at the Academy of Sciences.
•We learned how to use Pic Collage (on the ipads) to share information.

What’s Coming Up:

• We will write several poems in a mini poetry unit. 

•We start using our research as we build our Google Slides about our animal.

•We will work with our buddies to create a group bulletin board.

•We will grow our understanding of multiplication.

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CONGRATULATIONS
These students showed PERSONAL IMPROVEMENT on the
Weekly Math Review
(made up of mixed computation problems)
as compared with the previous week.
Due to our field trip on Friday, we did not have a Math Review last week.
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These students completed the optional
HOMEWORK PLUS.
 [ X2 = both Homework Plus options were completed]
There was no Homework Plus available last week.              
ALL homework, including Homework Plus, should be returned inside the yellow homework folder and should be completed in PENCIL.

in room 15, we strive to be
FOCUSED AND RELAXED







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