Thank you for attending our Parent- Teacher Conferences this week; it was a great opportunity to meet with our Room 104 families to discuss the academic and social progress that our students have demonstrated over the first 3 months of the school year. The individual goals and areas for growth that we outlined during the conferences will help to guide our learning over the upcoming months.
Our work in Language Arts continued to be based around story writing, and our students are applying the ideas from our story plans to complete our original creative stories. This week, our focus will be on the peer editing process, as we will further develop our understanding of providing useful feedback to our classmates. The editing checklist that we used for our Pixar writing will continue to provide us with the structure and guidelines for our story writing. These continue to be available in our Google Drive folders. We will also be looking at how we can evaluate the quality and usefulness of websites as sources for our research in Science and Social Studies. As we move further into research based projects, our ability to assess online resources becomes important in determining how we can become more effective and efficient in obtaining information from websites.
In Math, our work will continue to be based on multiplication and division strategies, including those related to variables. We have begun to investigate the connections between multiplication and division, and how using inverse operations can help support our understanding of the four operations. The question of using division strategies came up as a topic of conversation during several Parent-Teacher conferences this week, and we will aim to take some of the "mystery" out of division as we look at several different division methods, including the traditional long division algorithm, the box method, and the Big 7 strategy. Our goal is for each student to attach themselves to a strategy that they feel confident in using for dividing numbers, as we will be investigating these different approaches on equal terms.
Our yellow Weekly Review folders went home on Thursday, and these should be signed and returned to school early in the week, preferably on Monday, if possible. These folders will continue to be sent home each week as our students will complete a short review activity that includes some of the main skills and ideas that we focused on during the week. Please note that our work in Google Drive will be available for your review and discussion on an ongoing basis. This is a great opportunity to see how our work has been progressing in different subject areas.
We're looking forward to another great week of learning, and we will be welcoming Miss Yanko (our student teacher) to Room 104 starting on Monday November 25. Miss Yanko will be joining us for three weeks in November-December, and then again in March-April for her first two practicum experiences. We're excited to have her join us!
Enjoy your week,
-Mr. Wideman
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