A Sneak Peek At Our Week ...

• Writing:  For the next few weeks, students will focus on summarizing expository and narrative texts.  This week, students will learn to use the Main Idea & Detail strategy to summarize texts.  

• Math:  Today students completed a math activity that integrated the arts.  Students studied a few of Ellsworth Kelly's art pieces.  They discovered how he used a grid system as the foundation of his work.  Students replicated this, and created abstract or patterned designs on a square grid of 100 (representing one whole).  Then, they counted the different colors they used, and determined the fraction, decimal, and percentage representations of those colors.  For the remainder of the week students will focus on comparing decimal values and adding and subtracting decimals up to the hundredths.  

• Interactive Read-Aloud:  We are continuing to read There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom by Louis Sachar.  Students have enjoyed the humorous parts in the text, as well as the more serious ones.  They are connecting and empathizing with the story's main characters.  

• Reading:  Students have finished determining explicit and implicit main ideas of expository text, and will begin to determine the main idea and supporting details of narrative texts.  

• Science:  This week students will finish introduction activities related to the Quarter  Project.  Today your child focused on taking a testable question, and creating a hypothesis statement using the key words if and then.  On Tuesday students will define different variables, and identify the different variables related to specific testable questions.