Week 28

Dear families,

This Monday is Chaves Day. I hope you had a great long weekend. This week we will wrap up the Unit of Multistep Word Problem Solving by Thursday.  We will continue to focus on the following:

1. Use strategies and algorithms, including the standard algorithm to multiply a two-digit number by a one-digit number.
2. Solve one-step and two step problems involving multiplication and division within 100 using strategies based on object pictorial models, including arrays, area models, and equal groups.
3. Determine the unknown whole number in a multiplication or division equation relating three whole numbers when the unknown is either a missing factor or product.
4. Represent real-world relationships using number pairs in a table and verbal descriptions.
5. Create and describe the flow of energy in a food chain.
6. Investigate food chains and explain the interdependency of plants and animals by making food chains. 
7. Predict how changes in a food chain could affect a pond ecosystem, a field ecosystem, and a desert ecosystem, ect.
8. Problem of the day and number talk
9. CFA #11 On Thursday
10. Spiral Up Data Analysis Problem Solving

Have a great week!

Mrs. Waters

Divide and Conquer Game

                  Making Tangrams on Our Class Website

                         Adair's Demo

                           Dante's Food Chain

Week 27

Dear families,

I hope you had a relaxed, joyful and interesting Spring Break with your loved ones.  I had a wonderful time visiting Stonehenge, the Natural Science Museum and London Bridge in the United Kingdom. I'd be happy to share my experience with you. This week we will focus on the following:

1. Use strategies and algorithms, including the standard algorithm to multiply a two-digit number by a one-digit number.
2. Solve one-step and two step problems involving multiplication and division within 100 using strategies based on objects pictorial models, including arrays, area models, and equal groups.
3. Determine the unknown whole number in a multiplication or division equation relating three whole numbers when the unknown is either a missing factor or product.
4. Represent real-world relationships using number pairs in a table and verbal descriptions.
5. Comparing plants and animal life circles
6. Identify and describe the flow of energy in a food chain.
7. Renzulli project
8. Problem of the day and number talk
9. Spiral Up elapsed time problem solving

Have a great week!

Mrs. Waters

Marisol's Butterfly Life Cycle

Scarlett's Tessellation Art

                                   3D Paper Pyramid

            Marisol had an idea to clean our playground during recess time. She has led her friends in action! Wow, kids, you guys rock!

Can you believe this perfectly working clock is more than one century old?

Older than the Dinosaurs Tree Parts

The London Bridge 

Photography by Y. Waters 

Stonehenge is part of a complex prehistoric landscape. 

How amazing this ancient engineering work is!

Could you move this Stone?

Week 26

Dear families,

We have one week to go before Spring Break. This week we will continue learning about 2D and 3D figures. In science we are learning about the life cycles of plants and animals. We will focus on the following:

1. Use attributes to recognize rhombuses, parallelograms, trapezoids, rectangles, and squares
2. Compare and contrast quadrilaterals by using Venn diagrams 
3. Decompose two congruent two dimensional figures into parts with equal areas
4. Hands on activities: create your own 3D figures
5. Daily Drill: build numerical fluency, automaticity
6. Spiral Up  multiplication and division problem solving
7. Take CFA # 10
8. Explore life cycles of plants
9. Explore the life cycles of different animals
10. Rodeo Day: March11th,  please wear comfortable clothing - Western or anything nice.

Have a great week!

Mrs. Waters

Game Day!

Anthony demonstrates the moon's orbit

Pyramids