Monarchs and more!

What a fantastic week. We have started rearing monarchs, continued creating pieces of writing, and jumped into the world if arrays in math.

We had a very exciting day in Wednesday...that was the day that our monarch caterpillars arrived! We have been working hard to keep them safe, fed, and clean. We will be watching these animals develop alongside an investigation of life cycles. Soon enough these caterpillars will become chrysalis', and eventually they will emerge as butterflies. These grainy photographs are of some students 'pillars.

During literacy time we have been working on creating our own pieces of writing, as well as working on "the great writers project." Our own pieces are based on experiences that we have had in our lives, and focussed on times when we felt strong emotions. We are using these experiences to write personal narratives as well as to create original works of fiction! The great writers project is an undertaking that allows students to create their own copy of some if our favorite books! Students have chosen books that they e joy reading and are working to recreate the words and illustrations from the original.

 

 

In math, we have been working with arrays. Arrays are squares or rectangles that we can use to represent multiplication expressions. For each rectangle or square, the external dimensions are the expression. For example: a rectangle that is four tile long and two tiles wide represents the expression 4 x 2.

What expression is represented by this array?

As always, have a great weekend, and if you need to check with me please feel free to email (dwillard@u32.org) or call me at school at 223-7936 x 318.