Monday PE | Tuesday Principles of Nature-Garden O&A | Wednesday ART | Thursday ELC | Friday -Poetry Anthology Due |
Homework:
Reading: Read the newsletter Monday night & review your child's goal reflection (due Friday), Read a book of your choice the other nights. Make sure to record the book in your agenda.
Math: Check agenda or website, but there is daily math homework.
Writing: Spelling! Work on typing up poetry anthology.
Important Dates
| Volunteer |
There were two big highlights from our project work this week. The first was having a guest speaker from FG Light and Power talk to us about how we get electricity and how they keep costs low. Another was taking time to build our prototypes for the first culmination to our Geek Out.
Ask, what type of power is used to provide FG with electricity? (Hydropower and wave power.)
Talk about the most energy intensive systems in your home.
Extend the learning by finding ways to reduce energy usage in your home.
Literacy
I enjoyed challenging the Merlins to push themselves to document in their literature circle packet. In particular we talked about the setting of the story to mean, time, place and culture. And poetry is coming along quite lovely too. Merlins looked at perspective and a poem with 2 voices. We plan to have a Poetry Night on Thursday, December 7th. More TBA.
Ask, what’s the hardest part of filling out the literature circle packet.
Talk about your favorite poem so far or what you might share for our poetry night.
Extend the learning by reading and writing poetry together.
6th Grade Math
Sixth graders are enjoying finding a pace to the class that best fits them. Regardless of where your child is you can see their thoughts on fractions, in particular how finding the greatest common factor and least common multiple can be useful skills when dealing with fractions.
Ask, what are equivalent fractions?
Talk about how lcm becomes useful when working with fractions that have different denominators.
Extend the learning by finding ways to get practice with fractions at home.
5th Grade Math
This week, mathematicians invented some rules to help them remember the tricky ways of decimals. We also practiced rounding and adding decimals. This week, we will review our skills and take a test on Wednesday. Expect a test retake to come home by the end of the week!
Ask - How do you round a decimal to the tenth place? The hundredths?
Listen - to your 5th grade mathematician go over a problem on their test review (Monday or Tuesday).
Extend the learning at the grocery store or by looking at newspaper ads - practice reading & adding decimals! (Example: How much more does that $1.59 candy cost than a pound of bananas?).