Hi Families,
Since we have been back from the holiday break, your children have been engaged in the following:
1. Speeches about animals that includes an art piece. The topics within this assignment satisfy some of the Life Science standards. Students were asked to research animals based on an identified criteria. They were asked to take notes on 3X5 cards. Your child is expected to memorize the information on their cards, so that when they give the speech they are not reading off the note cards. Additionally, each student has been asked to produce a piece of art of the animal they selected. My suggestion was that they complete torn paper art as it is beautiful, but some want to draw. That's fine with me!
2. We have begun to look at the meaning of division and your children will be building concrete models to represent word problems this week.
3. We started to study for Biztown! Your children have a great opportunity to learn about so many topics that pertain to a community and needs within it. Today, we talked about "rights" and "responsibilities" of citizens. Your children did a great job in understanding this concept. When the time comes, I will need parent volunteers for interviewing children for jobs and also for being at Biztown the day of our fieltrip. Please be thinking about how you would like to participate.
I'm not sure you know, but every other Wednesday your child participates in Book Buddies The 4th graders read to the 1st graders in DeeDee's class.
Kim
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