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-Mon Mar 20, Fieldwork to Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals I will email out a reminder on Sunday! -Wed Apr 12, Fieldwork to OMSI Earthquake Lab -Fri Apr 14, Fieldwork to Beacon Rock with the Audubon Society If you want to chaperone this trip, please email me back by Monday 3/20. So far, we have had a lot of parents reach out willing to chaperone, so we will need to do a lottery. I'll be in touch sometime next week regarding the results. We are enforcing a new rule of no Pokemon cards at school at all. The students have not been able to keep the cards to only after school. The cards have been a distraction during class time. Thanks for your understanding! Pokemon books are okay though! Homework for this week: -Read each night for at least 20 minutes -Xtra math fluency practice xtramath.org (or multiplication flashcards) -spelling Math This week, we began a new project called Wonkyville. We created a town in our classroom that is a bit wonky, our houses don't exactly fit together quite right! There were folders laid around the classroom with different parts of a house: roof, walls, door, windows, and cost. The students randomly pulled a card that gave them either a multiplication or division problem to solve. We then drew out our houses and wrote a short paragraph about it. Many of our houses turned out really silly! Listen to your student describe the dimensions of their Wonkyville house Ask your student to tell you how they knew if a problem was a multiplication or division problem Extend the learning by practicing those multiplication facts at home! Literacy We have been working hard in our literacy groups, which allows me to work with all of the students at their appropriate level in a small group or one-on-one setting. We work on a variety of things including fluency, reading with expression, and comprehension strategies such as plotting the plot of the story or discussing character traits. We are on the third Upside Down Magic book called Showing Off. We really love this series and will begin doing some comparison work between the books soon. Listen to your student share what types of activities we have been doing in guided reading groups Ask your student to give a short summary of the second Upside Down Magic book called Sticks & Stones Extend the learning by reading some books together at home Expedition We have officially started geology and are so excited about it! On Tuesday, Ms. Nicole came in to help us kick off our expedition. She is studying hydrogeology and had lots of amazing rocks to show us as well as great information on types of geology and the rock cycle. We also took a closer look at the layers of Earth and discussed what geology is. As many of you may have heard, we have a class pet now! His name is Bax Rocky Road Pebbles and he is a rock. We've spent some free time making him clothes and accessorizing his house. He has joined our crew at a perfect time since we're now studying geology! He has really brought our crew together; he is incredibly cute and we all love to read to him and dress him up. He's such a calm little guy, it's perfect! Listen to your student describe some of the rocks Ms. Nicole brought in Ask them to describe the epic race of Bax vs Pebbles vs Hailey Extend the learning by watching this video we watched on geology together and discussing it! https://youtu.be/KTvsWd4HpAk Please let me know if you have any questions or comments!
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