Crew 1.12.12

Today's Fieldwork at Roxborough We had a beautiful hike at Roxborough State Park. Students embraced their role as scientists and made excellent observations about the rock formations. They recorded pictures, noticings, and wonderings. A big thank you to our chaperones who volunteered their time! More Chaperone Opportunities: Feeling left out? :) We need more chaperones for fieldwork to Garden of the Gods 10-3 on Thursday February 16th. Email me if you are interested!

Crew Learning Expedition: As an introduction to our next study, we have been analyzing what scientist notebooks look like (careful observations, detailed notes, and pictures with labels). To get the students excited about the next study we did a three part mystery piece which included today's fieldwork. Tomorrow we will reveal the name and the details of this expedition. HINTS AT HOME: Describe the clues that you have learned from the mystery pieces and fieldwork. What would you like to learn from this study?

Writing/Language Workshop: Students are doing impressive work with our genre study of book reviews. They are able to give a mini-summary, opinion, and recommendation for a book with no problem. We will wrap this study up next week, and choose one book review to publish and submit as a final piece. HINTS AT HOME: Have your child give you a book review of what is being read at home.

Math: Our geometry unit has continued with a study of shapes: triangles, quadrangles, and polygons. We have been learning about the similarities and differences between these shapes and learning new vocabulary such as vertices, parallelograms, irregular and regular polygons, and right angles. HINTS AT HOME: Continue studying multiplication/division facts at home. There are tons of great internet/ipad/cell phone games/resources that make practicing these fun.

Reading Workshop: We are lucky enough to have computers checked out to us on Tuesdays to continue working on reading responses using kidblogs. HINTS AT HOME: Students are welcome to access their blogs at home to write summaries, book reviews, or reading responses.

Spelling: Here is the spelling list for this week.

 

Book Orders:  With scholastic book orders (that went home last week), please submit orders online by next Monday, January 16th. The website is www.scholastic.com/bookclubs  and our class activation code is GP449.

Jan 16: MLK Jr. Day; No School
Jan 20: Teacher Work Day; No Students
Jan 28: REMS Winter Festival

Feb 16: Fieldwork at Garden of the Gods
Feb 29-Mar 1: Winter Voyage