Important Dates
-Tuesday November 1 Portland Bridge Tour. We realize this trip is the day after Halloween, but please do not send candy with your student to school. It would be great for them to be their typical energetic selves, but without a sugar crash to follow. Thank you! - Thursday November 17 to Friday November 18 Fort Stevens Overnight Homework for this week: -Read each night for at least 20 minutes -A reading on the St. Johns Bridge will be coming home with your student this week. Please read and discuss it together as a family and return it to school Math This week we began a new unit on geometry. We began by having a discussion about what we think geometry is and what we hope to learn about it. We came to the conclusion that geometry is all about shapes and we had many questions about the definitions of 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional objects. In table groups, we sorted a variety of different shapes into different categories. Some of the categories that we came up with included triangles, circles, rectangles, and also by how many edges and corners the shapes had. We also worked on our addition and subtraction fluency, which is something we will continue to work on throughout the year. Ask your student which addition or subtraction fluency work place they chose to work at Listen to your student name the categories their group came up with Extend the learning by identifying different shapes around the house Literacy We kicked off the prewriting process on the St. Johns Bridge by filling out a graphic organizer as a whole class. We came up with three main points from the reading on the history of the bridge as well as the structure. The task will be to write a story from the perspective of the St. Johns bridge. Some of us chose to practice this task by writing from the perspective of any chosen object. Ask your student what one of the history or structure details was that we wrote down in our graphic organizer Listen to your student describe what our graphic organizer looked like Extend the learning by practicing writing from the perspective of an object at home Expedition This week we began to closely study bridge terminology. We watched three videos and discussed the concepts from each of the videos, even using our hands to demonstrate certain ideas such as tension and compression. Then, we worked in table groups to sort our new vocabulary words into a flow chart. The word sort was on the three main bridge types and the subcategories that branch off of those (ex. one main type is a Suspension Bridge and a subcategory of that is a Cable-Stayed Bridge). This is something that we will continue to work on, there are quite a few challenging bridge vocabulary concepts. Ask your student to tell you the three main bridge types Listen to your student explain the two types of forces we learned about (tension and compression) Extend the learning by watching the videos we watched as a family https://youtu.be/oVOnRPefcno https://youtu.be/5C3VG0RdNPo Please let me know if you have any questions or comments!
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