Hello!
As it was so incredibly warm this afternoon students in room 75 participated in Aussie X outside!! They learned all about the footy, and how to control it when bouncing, kicking and passing the ball. Ask your child to share with you what they learned and enjoyed the most about Aussie X.
Yearbooks went home today. If you ordered a yearbook last year, they were sent out today. If you did order one but did NOT receive one, please email me and let me know.
In math we continued our exploration of patterns. We worked to strengthen our understanding of what a repeating or an increasing (growing) pattern was when using numbers. Students also learned that the core of the repeating pattern is the smallest part that repeats.
EG:
12, 23, 14, 18, 12, 23, 14, 18, 12, 23, 14, 18, ...
(the core would be 12 23 14 18) and this is an example of a REPEATING pattern.
A growing (increasing) patterns are when the numbers get bigger in a predictable way.
EG:
1, 2, 4, 8:
pattern is start at 1, then +1, +2, +4, +8, +16...
so the pattern, if we were to add to it would be
1,2,4,8,16,32,64.
The pattern rule is: Start at 1. Each time you add the number to itself.
Always remember when explaining what your pattern rule is to say what number you are starting your pattern with.
In writing, we wrote about what we did on the weekend, as so many students had many stories to share. As we learned from Gooney Bird Greene, we have many absolutely true stories to tell, and they were eager to come up with different titles for their stories about their weekend. We are exploring how to write about personal experiences as stories instead of just listing the different things we may have done. Ask your child to share with you the title of their absolutely true story from the weekend.
We also spent a great deal talking about the book projects that are due the last week of October. An information sheet will go home on Wednesday to parents to let you know the specifics of what is expected for their book project that they are working on at home. In class we will be working as a class on creating a book review about the story we just finished, "Gooney Bird Greene", and students will also be working on writing their own book review on a book they are reading in class.
Reminders:
We will be having library each week on Mondays, if your child did not get to change their book today, as soon as they return it, we will find a time for them to go and select a new one.
Tuesday is our LAST session with the resident artist Mrs. Gail Bartel
Wednesday is Aussie X.
Thursday night is SCIENCE NIGHT! at Cranston School 6:00-8:00pm.
Friday is DANCE!
(If you have any more Scholastic book orders, please hand them in ASAP, I will be putting the order in on Wednesday.)
Homework:
Read 15-30 minutes and record on the reading log.
Share with your parents two parts that are important to include in your book project.
Question for the blog:
What is an example of an increasing (growing pattern) or a repeating pattern? Write the pattern on the blog and write the pattern rule on a piece of paper and bring the Pattern Rule to school tomorrow so that we can share and solve it together.
My pattern is:
1, 2, 4, 7, 11, 16, ... What is my pattern rule? (you don't need to solve this one we will share it tomorrow in class, I just wanted to post a pattern as well as you guys!)
See you tomorrow,
Ms Handelsman
