Hey there, we have been working hard on writing some fractured fairy tales! We have used traditional fairy tales as the inspiration for these, and the adaptations we are making is to the characters. Our characters are the Vermont state fish, the brook trout! The stories and characters that the students have come up with are wonderful. We have also taken this opportunity to fully publish these stories, you will see them coming home as bound, hand illustrated volumes!
We have also been working a lot with fractions of like denominators. We are multiplying them by a whole number, as well as counting by them in a large group. We came to a consensus that we could simply use some of our multiplication knowledge when dealing with fractions, and that the reason the numerator changes and the denominator stays the same (when multiplying fractions by a whole number) is "the denominator is how many parts it takes to make a whole, and the numerator is how many parts you have."
Tomorrow we will be travelling to the State House and Vermont History Museum. We are looking forward to seeing the inner workings of our Capitol building, as well as the wonderful exhibits at the museum.
Next week is P.E. Lab and we will be going to the Wrightsville Reservoir for some canoeing and disc golf, and the following Monday we will be going to Boulder Beach with our buddies!
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