Week 22 Announcements

Dear families,

I hope everyone stayed warm and safe in the last few days.  Hope you have played Wordle, watched the Winter Olympic Games,  improved your chess skills or caught up a little on reading.

This week's focus will be as follows:

1. School Wide Livestream Book Reading from Kindred Stories
2. Vault App Lessons - Understanding Money
3. Find the perimeter of a polygon and find missing lengths
4. Determine the area of rectangles using multiplication
5. Investigate rapid changes in the Earth's surface such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and landslides
6. Math CFA #8  Thursday Feb 10
7. Class pictures Friday Feb 11
8. Cycle 4 Progress Report 

Have a great week!

Mrs. Waters

How many feet in a yard?

Learning About Financial Literacy

Our Dragon Masks!

Real World  Activities & Real World Skills

Measuring Length

Astro Bus is so Cool

Alyssa's Six Digits Shoe Box Abacus 

Paper Lanterns!

                                   Everyone got a red envelope from Culture Club

Week 21 Announcements

Dear families,

Last week we started the mid year Renaissance 360 Universal Screener. Some students received their report last Friday.  The remainder of my students will take the test this coming week. Please anticipate a report this week.  I'm very proud of my students' achievements.

Tuesday Feb 1st is the Lunar New Year Day. We will hold a small celebration with some crafts and treats. Parents, please wrap all treats individually if you plan to drop off some this Tuesday. We'll also be making an ancient calculator, or abacus which will be introduced Monday. Please send a clean shoe box or shoe box lid with your child if you have one Tuesday. 

This week's focus will be:  

1. Review Math CFA #7
2. Introduce financial math literacy
3. Make an abacus
4. Linear measurement activity
5. Review properties of polygons
6. Find the perimeters of various polygons such as triangles, rectangles, squares, pentagons and hexagons
7. In science we will be investigate rapid land changes on the earth's surface  - including volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and landslides.

Have a great week!

Mrs. Waters

                                        Parent playing bagpipes

The Zoom Spelling Bee 

Fractions on Number lines

                             Using Fraction Strips to Solve Problems

World Class Brownies made by Anthony's Dad

 

Happy Chinese New Year!

                                        

Week 20 Announcements

Dear families,

This week we will be learning/reviewing the following skills, and we'll have CFA #7 on Thursday or Friday.

1. Represent equivalent fractions by using a variety of objects and pictorial models, and number lines.
2. Compare fractions with the same denominator by using symbols, words, objects, pictorial models, and number lines.
3. Compare fractions with the same numerator by using symbols, words, objects, pictorial models, and number lines.
4. Solve multistep word problems involving partitioning an object or a set of objects among two or more recipients
5. In science: exploring decomposition of plants and how they become part of soil, soil formation and and types of soil.
6. CFA #7 will be taken this week

Have a great week!

Mrs. Waters

                            Interactive Equivalent Fraction Game

Week 19 Announcements

Dear families,

I hope your four day weekend was great.

This week we will be learning the following skills:

1. Represent equivalent fractions by using a variety of objects and pictorial models, and number lines.
2. Compare fractions with the same denominator by using symbols, words, objects, pictorial models, and number lines.
3. Compare fractions with the same numerator by using symbols, words, objects, pictorial models, and number lines.
4. Solve multistep word problems involving partitioning an object or a set of objects among two or more recipients
5. In science: exploring decomposition of plants and how they become part of soil, soil formation and and types of soil.

Have a great week!

Mrs. Waters

Week 18 Announcements

Dear families,

I hope everyone is staying healthy and sound.

This week we will be learning the following skills:

1. Representing fraction of halves, fourths, and eights on number lines, area models and strip diagrams
2. Determining the corresponding fractions using pictorial models including strip diagrams , area models and number lines 
3. Explaining the unit fraction using area models, strip diagrams and number lines
4. Solving problems involving partitioning an object or a set of objects among two or more recipients
5. In science: exploring endangered species

Have a great week!

Mrs. Waters

Week 17, Welcome Back

Dear families,

Happy New Year! Are you ready for our Spring semester? I hope you all had a joyful and safe holiday break. I stayed home the entire holiday just to be careful. Hopefully 100% of us are ready to be back in class!

This coming week we will be focusing on the time unit in math and natural resources unit in Science. 

1. Use the number line to locate and label times
2. Relate time shown on a digital clock to an analog clock and vice versa
3. Find the elapsed time by using pictorial models or number lines
4. Find the ending time by using pictorial models or number lines
5. Find the starting time by using pictorial models or number lines
6. Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes
7. Spiral up on multistep problem solving 
8. Explore the characteristics of natural resources and how resources may be conserved
9. Introduce the next Superstar Showcase Project

Have a great week!

Mrs. Waters

Wrap Up Notes Dec 18, 2021

Dear parents and guardians,

 

I hope this note finds you and your families safe and sound. 

Your generosity and kindness are immense. My students and I are very fortunate to have you! Our Winter Holiday Lunch party was a memorable one. The children truly enjoyed everything: Pizza and utensils from Adair, oranges from Hudson, chips from Duncan, Christmas cookies from David, ginger bread cookies from Evelyn, brownies and cupcakes from Marisol, grapes & Christmas wind-up toys from Dante, onion rings & Takis from Hernan, carrots from Lily, ornament crafts from Royal, candies, estimating jars and origami paper from Scarlett. I'm including some pictures here from yesterday's celebration. I understand a couple of students may have left your Christmas present in class - I'll save it for you.

Thank you Mrs. Villanueva and Mrs. Mack for helping our class with serving food and facilitating the fun games. You saved my day! Thank you Mrs. Mena for picking up the pizzas for us so we had warm pizza on time.

I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Mrs. Waters

22 Christmas Presents Wrapped & Ready!

Rummikub Time

"Thank you Mrs. Waters for the Book!"

Raegan won the Estimating Jar A

Scarlett announced: Royal won the Estimating Jar B

I know the answer!

Ready Go, Math Around the World!

Week 16

Dear families,

We have one more week to go before our Winter Holiday.  Our Superstar Showcase will be on Wednesday Dec. 15th between (10:15 - 11:00am). Please check the Zoom invitation on Living Tree soon.

This week's learning focus areas are as follows:

1. Extend, review, assess and reteaching unit 7 Number  Pairs Relationships
2. Introduce unit 8 Time academic vocabulary
3. Reading an analog clock: hour, half hour, and quarter hour, to nearest Five minutes and minute
4. Students will determine solutions to problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals
5. In science students will be learning about natural resources and energy conservation.

On Friday, students may wear PJs and we will have a Winter Holiday Lunch Party between 11:00am - 1:00 pm.  We will have pizza, drinks, fruits, sweets  and snacks. And there will be a holiday movie, craft and games that day too. Each student will receive a present from Santa since they worked so hard this semester and have shown great progress. I am very proud of each of you.  I will be sure to take some pictures of the event to share with you later.

Please don't worry too much if you haven't completed your project yet. Please keep in mind what counts the most is that you have participated and done as well as you can.  Keep trying and good luck!

Enjoy the last school week of 2021!

With Love,

Mrs. Waters

 

Function Machine

Marisol is working on her number patterns. 

Week 15 Announcements

Dear families,

This week we will move to Unit 7 in math. In this unit students will learn the following skills:

1. Represent real-world relationships using number pairs in a table and verbal descriptions to solve problems in real-world contexts.
2. Identify and describe numerical patterns in a table in order to extend the numerical relationships represented.
3. Represent real-world relationships using verbal descriptions, as well as interpret verbal descriptions of real-world relationships to represent them symbolically
4. Explore numerical relationships with whole numbers involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division
5. Understand that a numerical pattern represents a sequence of numbers that follow a rule 
6. In Science students will explore the characteristics of natural resources that make them useful in products and materials such as clothing and furniture and how resources may be conserved.

We will also have math district learning assessment on Thursday.

Have a great Week!

Mrs. Waters

Week 14 Announcements

This week students will solve one-step multiplication and division problems using strategies based on objects, pictorial models, arrays, area models, equal groups, properties of operations, and recall of facts. Students will also represent and solve one-step multiplication and division problems using arrays, strip diagrams, and equations. Students will also learn to describe a multiplication expression as a comparison.  Students will determine the unknown number in a multiplication or division equation relating three whole numbers when the unknown is either a missing factor or product.

We will also continue working on the Superstar Showcase Project(s). I will provide the feedback on your finished portion of your projects.  Please have them ready by this Thursday. If you wish to combine two projects into one and need some support, be sure to share your ideas with me in class. 

I sent a note on LivingTree on the Friday Nov.19th.  Below is an image of the post just in case you guys haven't seen it.

I've also attached some images of sample problem solving strategies here for your reference.

                                             Paper Mosaic Project Sample

                                             Real Life Mosaic Flower Pot

Week 13 Announcements

Dear families,

This week our learning focus will be as follows:

1. Commutative property of multiplication
2. Associative  property of multiplication
3. Distributive property of multiplication
4. Multiply a two digit by a one digit number by using standard algorithm and other strategies
5. Describe a multiplication expression as a comparison for example 3x24 represents 3 times as much as 24
6. Observe, measure, record and compare day to day weather changes in different locations
7. Spiral Up unit 5 multistep addition and subtraction word problem solving

We will also have lunch in classroom on Friday between 11:40 - 1:00pm. 

Have a great week!

Mrs. Waters

 Sample Multi-step  + - Word Problem

                                                     Origami fun

 

Week 12 Announcements

Dear Families,

For week twelve we will continue learning about multi -step word problem solving on addition and subtraction. Sample questions please see attached google slice.

Multi-step Addition and Subtraction Problems   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UpzA7pVeyDW9hxBqefpF-M1sWHT4miYSeR2eByQFSMo/edit?usp=sharing

Have a great week!

Mrs. Waters