Our first full week back

On our first full week back we have been extremely productive.  We are in a cursive immersion, so much of the writing we are doing is in cursive.  This is the first time I have done cursive as an immersion, and we are also working on creating an atmosphere of Zen around our cursive work.  We have a few tenets that we try to stick to when writing in cursive, the most important one of which is "be relaxed."

In math we are continuing our work with division.  This week we have been working on digging deeper into division that has 2 digit dividends and one digit divisors.  We are practicing mastering different families of these by making models of them, and using the models to see the dividend, divisor, and quotient.  These models are made with cuisenaire rods...



...these models both have an area of 30.  And they both can be used to understand 30/5 or 30/6.  Check in with your student for an explanation of how to use these to find the quotient.

We are also beginning a unit on historical fiction and our text for this is The Little House in the Big Woods.  This is one of my favorites, and is os interesting as it has lots of unique information,  and tiny but important details.

Authentic reflections from the week:

This week we have been reading historical fiction, and thinking about things like: what is true in the book, how does the character’s world influence their actions thoughts and feelings, and how you can get a lot of information from the small details. We have been testing these questions on the book The Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

This week in reateach we are seeing how much our ( Hughes and I) bombing plane costs. It is hard to do it because it is so big and there are lots of contacts. In math we are working on division problems. And in pe we are doing floor hockey, or we might be doing a new subject in pe. We are working on some cursive. Typing club is fun to, because we are working to make our typing faster and more fluent than a couple years ago.  

This week we worked on my favorite thing writing in cursive!  My favorite part about writing in cursive is that you get to see how fast you can get at it.  Another thing we did was make ramps and put little skateboards down it and see how fast it went and how long it goes.    And the way you make it go longer is to have it go down on to a flat surface.

This week was a nice and good week. On Monday we had extra art, Tuesday we didn’t have band, but at music we watched a cool video. On Wednesday we got candy in Library from a game (I got grape taffy.) On Thursday also in Library I made a collage about Sidi in the Turtle of Oman on my chromebook, and we also had a great band after that, then on Friday, today, we are going to have P.E. at 12:40 and I think we are going to play floor hockey! Also, after school my cousin is going to be at my house at 6:00 and I can hardly wait!

Have a restful and relaxing weekend,

Dave