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-Thursday Feb 2, No School Professional Development Day -Friday Feb 3, No School Grading Day -Monday Feb 6th Early Start Begins! To make up for all those snow days, school will be starting at 8:00a -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. -Monday Jan 30 - Wednesday Feb 1 Scholastic book fair! This will be open to the students during lunch and after school Donation Requests: -disinfecting wipes -paper towels Homework for this week: Homework this week will be going home on Wednesday instead of Tuesday!! Since it is a short week, the students will be coming home with a bit more work that usual so that Thursday and Friday can be used as valuable learning time for both teachers and students! -Read each night for at least 20 minutes Math We are loving multiplication! We continued our look into multiplication by discussing the different ways that multiplication can be represented. We discussed that it can be understood as equal groups (what we called loops and groups), repeated addition, or in an array! We worked in depth with arrays and discovered the difference between representing 3 x 7 and 7 x 3. When it comes to arrays, multiplication can be thought of as "rows of" so 3 x 7 look like 3 rows of 7, while 7 x 3 looks like 7 rows of 3! This was quite confusing at first, even for Ms. Kerry, but with a lot of practice we quickly got the hang of it! Then, we found arrays around our classroom and with our reading buddies! Listen to your student explain different ways to represent multiplication Ask your student to to draw you a 3 x 7 array and a 7 x 3 array and discuss the difference Extend the learning by finding arrays around the house! Some example from the classroom were our calendars and our bookshelves Literacy Last week we learned about editing our papers! We discussed capitalization, punctuation, and thinking about our word choice. We read an awesome book called Punctuation Takes a Vacation. It was all about a class that let their punctuation take a vacation...but that resulted in chaos for reading! We practiced both of these new skills and will continue this week to edit our bridge writings. Listen to your student describe what happened in the book Punctuation Takes a Vacation Ask them to describe when words should be capitalized Extend the learning by reading a book together at home and tracking all the different punctuation marks you find Expedition As we finish up our bridge writing, the students are also working on a few other projects.We have beautiful watercolor and sharpie bridge artwork pieces that are coming together nicely. We have been enjoying each other's company while painting and listening to our new read aloud book called Upside Down Magic. We also are working on a Bridge A-Z chart, it has been challenging to think of bridge words that start with Z and X! Listen to your student list the different bridge words they have thought of from A-Z Ask them to describe the process of creating their bridge artwork Extend the learning by practicing drawing bridges together as a family Please let me know if you have any questions or comments!
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