Good Morning,
It is hard to believe but we only have 14 days left of school. The good news is the kids are steadily busy wrapping up three different projects, starting to take end of the year assessments and the regular day to day things. I hope you all can attend the gathering we are doing on the evening of June 2nd. It will go from 6:00-7:00 pm. It will be set up that kids have their work at a "station" and parents can see their kids work and then check out a few other kids pieces of work too. It will allow each student to use their presentation voices with their own family and with others that check in with them.
This past Wednesday marked the end of our "Inspiration Hour" series. Over the last three Wednesdays, kids had a chance to take part in an activity that they wanted to explore and/or have interest in. From cooking, art, hitting the links, to playing board games with friends, the opportunities were enjoyed by most. I love that our school does this and the excitement the kids have toward this is so great to see. I have included some pictures from the past three weeks.
This week in first grade math, we reviewed several concepts as we prepare to take the end of the year assessment. We spent our time adding two, two digit numbers, comparing equalities, subtraction practice, and place value concepts. Ms. Figdor reports the following: It has been another busy week in second grade math. In the beginning of the week we explored some early division concepts by dividing multiples of ten into groups. For example, we split 120 into 6 equal groups using the base ten blocks and then wrote equations to match the models we created. Then we continued to explore factions. This week the second graders have been exploring how fractional understanding is related to division. We have continued to explore fractions of both area models as well as set models. In addition, we learned that the top of the fraction is called the numerator and the bottom of the fraction is called the denominator. Students learned that the greater the number in the denominator the smaller the fractional piece. For example ⅓ is greater than ⅛ because the whole would be split into smaller pieces. The greatest take away for many students is that they cannot use whole number reasoning to understand fractions.
NOTES:
*Please mark you calendars for our gathering on Thursday, June 2nd @6:00 pm. Please arrive a bit early so your child will be able to set up their stuff. We wills tart promptly at 6:00.
*Yesterday, I informed the kids that they are no longer allowed to bring their Pokemon cards to school. We have had several problems with them (not our class) as a whole school community and we need to take action to end some of the issues. The kids were disappointed but are happy we can still make our own cards. By the way, they are looking AWESOME! Please help your child with this request and go through their bags and take out any cards.
Peace, Mr. Young
