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-Reminder that school starts 10 minutes earlier now! Doors open at 7:50a -Thursday Mar 2nd, NEW EL NIGHT! Due to the snow days, we have changed EL night to March 2nd. This is to make sure all the crews have enough time to finish our expedition final products. -Thursday, Feb 16 - Fieldwork to St. Johns Bridge More information coming soon -Progress reports went home on Friday! If you haven't seen your student's report yet, check their backpack! Homework for this week: -Read each night for at least 20 minutes -math facts flash cards -two more readers responses will be sent home this week, due back next Tuesday 2/21 Math This week, we continued our study of multiplication. We added more rows to our multiplication chart and it is almost completed. Now that we have all grasped the concept of multiplication and know different ways to represent it, we will begin becoming fluent in these facts. To start that off, we played a multiplication game that involved running up to the board to quickly solve problems. We also began writing our own multiplication story problems! This was challenging for many of us, as it was at first hard to tell when to add in a story problem and when to multiply. We realized that you multiply when the same number is being repeated or there are groups of things. We can add when different numbers need to be combined. This, upcoming week, we will be going to the computer lab to type up our problems and are hoping to send them home for our families to do! So, expect some homework soon :) Listen to your student explain the process of creating a story problem Ask your student to explain when to add in a problem and when to multiply Extend the learning by creating multiplication story problems for your student to solve Literacy We are finally able to get back into the full swing of our guided reading groups. The snow days and short weeks really threw off our schedule, so we were all really glad to get back together in our groups for reading. Our focus for this week has been on character traits and building on our reading fluency and expression. We have been having a lot of fun using our fluency sticks to track our reading. This helps us not skip over words or lines and read with a steady pace. Our read aloud book Upside Down Magic has been a lot of fun to read. We have had a lot of good laughs with that book! Listen to your student explain what a character trait is Ask your student to describe the character traits of Nory from Upside Down Magic Extend the learning by reading a book together and discussing the different character traits of a main character Expedition This week, we are tackling an engineering problem! We read the beginning of a blog post from a Portland hiker who is concerned about a safety hazard on a trail. In Forest Park on Wildwood Trail, there is a portion of the trail that crosses W. Burnside St. There is always a lot of traffic and cars zipping by...so we brainstormed solutions to solving this. As a class, we decided that building a footbridge would be the most reasonable and effective solution. In our bridge groups, we collaborated to answer questions about what our bridge design and proposal might look like. Here is a link to the blog post we read about: https://exploreportlandnature.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/proposed-pedestrian-bridge-for-wildwood-trail-at-burnside/ We only read the first portion, I haven't yet told them there is an actual footbridge proposal, we will be looking at that later this week! Listen to your student describe the problem that we worked on solving in regards to the hiking trail Ask them to describe what type of bridge they think would be best for a footbridge Extend the learning by discussing this video and reviewing the engineering process https://youtu.be/fxJWin195kU Please let me know if you have any questions or comments!
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