Monday, October 3, 2016

Shoutout to our parent volunteers for joining us today! Students had a great time exploring computational thinking through code! Thank you for a great day today :)

 MATH:  Looking at equivalent fractions, mixed numbers & improper fractions. 
Share ideas, strategies and thought on the Pizza Night challenge in the Math NSN Blog. We will be discussing suggestions later this week into next week!
***Practice your multiplication tables for 7 & 8: 
Check out these sites for practice:  Math is Fun  or Table Trees

POETRY: Pollination Poem with the list of descriptive words inspired by the Louie Schwartzberg: The hidden beauty of pollination. (scroll to 3:20 to begin viewing the timelapse video)  Google Classroom assignment. Second draft peer feedback tomorrow. Continue to build upon your writing

SCIENCE:  Create a classification tree with at least three sub-levels on anything you choose to sort (e.g., toy cars / dolls / types of food / furniture / clothing / pets)  Online with bubbl.us.  We will print them off in class for our anchor wall.

GLOBAL READ ALOUD 2016 (GRA) : In PADLET: PAX Predictions - write a prediction about our global read aloud book:  Here is a quick glimpse into the story PAX by Sarah PennyPacker