Welcome back!

We are back!  I hope that all of you had a relaxing and refreshing break.  As we get back into "school-mode" we are getting excited about a bunch of new things.  We will be exploring new book group books.  Students are digging into some new non-fiction books, and we are reviewing some of the features that we use to navigate these texts.  Ask your student what their favorite feature is, and ask them what the verso-page is!  The following photos were taken during our first exploratory time with our books.

Some of the subjects are; Swifts, a crooked legged horse, and "the Asian unicorn."

We have also started working on division in math.  For the few weeks before break we were working on multiplying groups of numbers together, and now we are working on figuring out how many groups of numbers are contained within others.

Finally we have continued our investigation into the mysterious world of electricity and magnetism.  We are currently working on creating mini electric motors.  Through this work students are working on design questions to make these work, as well as understanding how these motors work.  The motors we are building function on the principle that a magnetic field is created when electricity passes through a coil of copper.  Talk to your students about the frustrating problems that they had to overcome to make these motors.