Happy New Year!! Welcome back to school and to 2017! We are off an running in the 2nd half of the school year! I love that the kiddos didn't miss a beat! They came in like they had just left yesterday! Today was a fantastic day. We did a New Year's packet, discussed resolutions/goals, and learned a really cool technology tool called Answergarden! We talked about inferencing, drawing conclusions and finding the main idea! These will be key topics in reading over the next few weeks! We also talked about our upcoming story "The Stranger." We will really dive into it starting tomorrow and will continue it for the next few weeks! We were able to squeeze in our pre-spelling test and won't have our final test until Jan. 20th!
For math we dove into Unit 5, which is all about multiplication! Today we discussed extended multiplication facts such as 20 * 300. It's simple...all you have to do is add the 0's! :) We will be getting to double digit multiplication before long so practice those facts!!
For science, we are getting prepared to be alchemists! Yes...we are studying chemistry!! Tomorrow we will start experiments with turning some rusty old coins and nails into gold (shiny again)! We have to figure out what the best solution will be in order to make that happen!!
Well...tomorrow is already Friday!! LOL!! That week flew by!! :) We are off to a great 2017, and I can't wait to get big things accomplished in the remainder of the school year!
Mrs. Elder
HOMEWORK:
Homelink 5.2
Read 15 min AR
For math we dove into Unit 5, which is all about multiplication! Today we discussed extended multiplication facts such as 20 * 300. It's simple...all you have to do is add the 0's! :) We will be getting to double digit multiplication before long so practice those facts!!
For science, we are getting prepared to be alchemists! Yes...we are studying chemistry!! Tomorrow we will start experiments with turning some rusty old coins and nails into gold (shiny again)! We have to figure out what the best solution will be in order to make that happen!!
Well...tomorrow is already Friday!! LOL!! That week flew by!! :) We are off to a great 2017, and I can't wait to get big things accomplished in the remainder of the school year!
Mrs. Elder
HOMEWORK:
Homelink 5.2
Read 15 min AR