Week in Review: January 26-30

We did some fun, hands-on activities in science this week! Students worked in small groups to build volcanoes outside and enjoyed watching them erupt. It was a great way for them to see how the surface of the earth can change very rapidly from a volcano.

They also simulated an earthquake with graham crackers as tectonic plates and frosting being the magma the plates rest on. Unfortunately due to my training this week, I missed all the fun of volcano eruptions and graham cracker earthquakes on Tuesday and Wednesday so I don't have any pictures of those.

In language arts, we are wrapping up our poetry unit and moving onto biographies next week. We took a look at a sample STAAR poetry passage to learn the kinds of questions they might see in April when it comes to poetry selections.

In math, we reviewed on Monday and tested on Tuesday over fractions. The test grades were good for the most part, and most of the mistakes that I did see were due to careless mistakes, such as not reading the entire question. We moved back into multiplication and are focusing on our 9s and 6s facts, so please continue to work with your child on learning those facts!

I hope you all have a great weekend, and remember that next Wednesday is an early release day, so students will be released at 12:45pm.