Week in Review: January 22-26

This week in science, we have been discussing natural resources, both renewable and non-renewable. Students sorted various household items based on the resource they were made from, and we discussed what characteristics they had that make them useful to people.

We wrapped up our biography unit in language arts and are starting to read various types of traditional literature, such as fables, folktales, legends, and fairy tales. We will soon be writing our own fairy tales!

In math, we are nearing the end of our unit on area and geometry. We should test over that on Tuesday, and then our next unit will be focusing on multiplication again.

We had a fun Friday with Science Day! Students enjoyed coding on the iPads, learning about potential and kinetic energy with the Hot Wheels tracks and cars, and reading about science topics of their choice through MackinVIA, an online library resource.

Next week, students will take a practice STAAR test. They will do the math test on Wednesday and reading on Thursday. Please make sure your child get's a good night of sleep and has a healthy breakfast so they can do their best work!

Week in Review: January 17-19

What a short week! We only had 3 days, but we still managed to fit in a lot of learning!

In science, we did did an activity called Soil Shakes, where students added water to their soil samples, shook them up, and then watched to see how layers formed. We ended the week with Rock Banging to learn about how rocks are weathered in nature.

In math, we reviewed the different types of quadrilaterals and their attributes, learned about three types of triangles (based on the length of their sides), and began exploring the concept of area.

In language arts, we finished up our One Little Word writing pieces, and have been reviewing capitalization skills. We are still reading biographies and have been spending a lot of time talking about character traits, and why people do what they do.

In other news...Ms. Lampkin from UT is back this semester as a full time student teacher. We are so excited to have her back in the classroom. For the rest of January, she will only be in for partial days as she finishes up a class at UT, but by February, she will be here all day, every day!