Social Studies
Our study of communities continues this week with a look at different kinds of communities, namely urban (big cities) and rural (small community with lots of land and space). We will also introduce the concept of suburbs, as places that are close enough to big cities for people to work and play in, while allowing for people to live in less crowded conditions. We will have our first quiz on Friday of this week. Students will be responsible for material from last week, as well as this week. Your child may bring home their blue folder each night to study and prepare; encourage them to do so.
Science
Look for our graded quiz on lab safety and procedures to come home Tuesday in the Take Home Folder. Please sign and return it to school! This week we will continue working with plants as we explore the following essential question: What are seeds? We will continue working on our ability to make detailed observations utilizing our senses, as we examine soaked and unsoaked lima beans. We will review the parts of a seed and how they make a new plant, before finishing up the week by beginning an investigation into how bean seeds grow.
Math Workshop
Look for the yellow family letter in this week’s Take Home Folder. It has many great ideas for games and activities that can be done at home to reinforce the concepts from our current unit: Collections and Travel Stories. This week we will begin to build a class collection of 1,000 of the same thing to give students a concrete model of 1,000. Look in your child’s planner if you are interested in helping our collection grow. Over the next few days we will be working through word problems like this one: “Miss P was collecting coins. She had 230 so far. If she wanted to store them in bags of 10, how many bags would she need? What about bags of 100?” Try working through this problem, or make up similar ones. Observe their strategies. Are they utilizing their knowledge of the number of 10’s in 100 to help them solve the problem(s)? Do they use tools, like their 1,000 chart?
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