March 13-16

 

"Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment." ~Horace, Ancient Roman poet

*Reminder-No school for students on Friday, March 17. It is a professional development day for teachers.

Here's what we're learning this week:

LITERACY:

• Spelling Lists -A and B -/k/ and /kw sounds, List C Science rolling carts vocabulary
• Grammar- the verb to be and helping verbs
• Writing-Multiple prompts to single text Becoming a Writer
• Read Aloud-Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary

MATH

• Relating multiplication to division
• Relating quotients to familiar products i.e. using known multiplication facts to find solve division equations
• Patterns in the Multiplication Table

SCIENCE

• Predicting Motion of New Systems-Determining what rules help predict where a rolling cup turns
• Twirly Birds -What happens to the motion of a twirly bird when the design changes?