Last week in our Wednesday envelopes we got some important information that I wanted to give you a gentle reminder about. Our first Movie Frenzy will be held on Friday, November 21. The movie that will be showed is Mr. Peabody and Sherman. The movie cots $3 to attend and the permission slips are due by Wednesday, November 19. The second reminder is about a Box Top challenge! From now until the end of February box tops will be collected. The class that accumulates the most will win a pizza party so please save all box tops! The last reminder is about the Amazing Grace food drive. Food will be collected November 10- November 25th.
This week’s envelope has some more important information. Our next field trip is coming up to the Children’s Science Museum. The trip will be on December 9. Two chaperones from each class will be randomly selected. If you wish to join us, please let me know. Please note that the chaperone fee is due ahead of time. The students are also coming home with our first long-term project. Students are required to disguise a turkey and then write a narrative story about a turkey hiding from a farmer to avoid being eaten for Thanksgiving dinner. If you visit our classroom webpage, I posted a sample narrative piece in the form of a legend to see what is expected for the student piece. Stories and turkeys are due Wednesday, November 26.
Room 2 would like to congratulate Max on being this week’s Star Student! Max works hard and applies himself with his lessons. Max is also incredibly kind and welcoming to his fellow classmates. He is often the first student to volunteer to help a classmate. Congratulations Max, Room 2 is proud of you!
We will begin our division unit this week. We will use the same strategies that we learned for multiplication so the students will see the connection. Students will use circles and stars, arrays, repeated subtraction, skip counting, the bar method and the number line. However, students need to pay extra special attention to the fact that as of right now, groups have to be equal. Another difference is students will view the equation as the number of items being divided into a certain number of groups. For example, 15 ÷ 3= 5 will be thought of as 15 items divided equally amount 3 groups so that means 5 items will be in each group. For circles and stars, students will then draw 3 circles, and then equally divide 15 into those 3 circles. Please check our classroom webpage under “student notes” to view examples of other strategies as we learn them.
Warmly,
Miss Pantalena