Math: Your child’s Math test from Monday was sent
home on Friday. Everyone did so well and was very proud of their hard work! Our next unit is on
writing equations to solve word problems.
This week we made math mountains to show how addition/subtraction and multiplication/division can form many equations. We are reading word problems carefully and then writing equations from what we read.
Bible: We continued to read about Joseph in the book
of Genesis this week and how God used him to rule over Egypt during seven years
of plenty and seven years of famine. We
see God’s hand in Joseph’s life as he becomes 2nd in command of
Egypt and once again sees his brothers when they come to buy grain. We talked a lot about how Joseph trusts in
God no matter what his circumstance may be. What a great lesson for all of us!
Our
Bible Memory next week will continue to be Job 19:25-26. This will be due on Thursday, March 5.
Social
Studies: This week we talked about Wind
Turbines and Wind Farms. We had a great
discussion if this is a good thing to put in Michigan’s Great Lakes. We also looked at public goods and services
that we receive from the Michigan government and how these are paid for through
fees, fines, and taxes. We spent a
couple days reviewing all of the terminology from the Economy Unit. Your child came home with a green
study sheet of the terms that will be on our Economy Test on Monday. We talked about many different ways to study
for this and your child practiced some of these techniques in class.
Reading/Writing: This week we continued our research (gathering facts) on our animals that we have chosen for our informational books. We first started by identifying subtopics that we thought would be important to write about and then we gathered our facts about the subtopics. The next step was taking all of our facts and identifying a main idea sentence from the information we gathered and then elaborating on our facts to write them as supporting details sentences. Your children are learning a lot about their animals and it has been so fun to just let them go and watch. They are just natural learners.
Next week we will start to write our individual chapters.
Reminders:
- The skating party has been rescheduled for this coming Tuesday.
- We use our dry erase markers every day in Math and many students are starting to run dry. Please check with your child if they are in need of new ones to make it though the end of the year. Thanks for you help in this area!
- Our Kleenex supply is almost out. If you are willing to send in a box we would greatly appreciate it.
- Reading Minutes Due Monday.
- Fun Night is scheduled for Friday, March 13. If you would like to help in any way please sign up at the following link: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0c4daaab22a20-funnight
- March is Reading Month. To kick off this event, Monday March 2 will be ”Read a Shirt (Sweatshirt) Day.”
- No School On Friday, March 6. This is a staff professional development day.
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