Swimming is starting this week, Sunday 23rd April students in KG - Grade 5 will begin swimming in PE in their 1 hour lesson each week for the remainder of the school year. Please remember to send a swimsuit, towel and goggles with your swimmer. Swimmers with long hair must either wear a swim cap or have their hair tied back.
As a reminder each classes swimming days are:
Sunday - 3H, 1C, 2R and 4C
Monday - 5G, 3C, 1S and 4D
Tuesday (will start on May 2 because of a holiday on the April 25)- KGC, KGS and 4S
Wednesday - 3W, 5K, 2K and 4F
Thursday - 1M, 5O and 2M
Sunday - 3H, 1C, 2R and 4C
Monday - 5G, 3C, 1S and 4D
Tuesday (will start on May 2 because of a holiday on the April 25)- KGC, KGS and 4S
Wednesday - 3W, 5K, 2K and 4F
Thursday - 1M, 5O and 2M
Sarah Harman Grades PreK, Kg, Grade 1, Grade 3 and Grade 5
sharman@g-cacegypt.org
sharman@g-cacegypt.org
READING
This week, students will be introduced to the new reading unit of Biographies. They will learn that biographies teach in the way that nonfiction books do, but are similar to fiction, in that they have a ‘story arc’ (main character, setting, problem, overcoming difficulties, ending). They will read keeping in mind the essential question, “How can the different qualities I learn about a person be applied to my own life and help me become a better person?”
You can help your child at home by discussing the personality and qualities that led to the subject of their biographies to success.
Students will continue to meet with their book club group. They should prepare for book clubs by deciding which post-it they will share for discussion.
WRITING
Third Grade students will start the week off planning and practicing their very own fairy tale. Practicing storytelling their stories helps them work out sequencing and details that need to be added. They will use everything they learned in their prior two experiences of writing fairy tales to help them start on their way. They will learn that one way writers improve their writing is to add descriptive language to their story. They do this by adding details to describe the character, setting and objects as they write.
Third Grade students will start the week off planning and practicing their very own fairy tale. Practicing storytelling their stories helps them work out sequencing and details that need to be added. They will use everything they learned in their prior two experiences of writing fairy tales to help them start on their way. They will learn that one way writers improve their writing is to add descriptive language to their story. They do this by adding details to describe the character, setting and objects as they write.
MATH
Also this week, students will use tetrominoes (think of flat, paper tetris shapes that they can manipulate with their hands, and see example) to compose and decompose polygons using various combinations of the cut-out figures placed together. Through this engagement, our mathematicians will continue to reason about and justify how they know that their combination of tetrominoes meets the requirements of different polygons (e.g. four equal side lengths for a square).
Continuing with our study of geometry, third grade mathematicians will use their knowledge of the different features of shapes to draw polygons with specific attributes to solve problems. In class students will play a game in which they select a card at random that has attributes written on it and students must draw a shape that meets the criteria of these attributes. For example, a student may pick a card that reads “is a quadrilateral, has all equal sides, and at least one right angle” and can draw a square to meet the criteria of this card.
Also this week, students will use tetrominoes (think of flat, paper tetris shapes that they can manipulate with their hands, and see example) to compose and decompose polygons using various combinations of the cut-out figures placed together. Through this engagement, our mathematicians will continue to reason about and justify how they know that their combination of tetrominoes meets the requirements of different polygons (e.g. four equal side lengths for a square).
Students will finish the week decomposing quadrilaterals to understand perimeter as the boundary of a shape. They will create tessellations to explore how the perimeter, the measurement of the boundary around a shape, can change even when the area, or the amount of space a figure takes up, remains the same.
SCIENCE
This week we start our final Science unit, Habitats. We will kick if off with an investigation looking at a variety of pictures that show interdependence between different living creatures. Students will look at the connection between the images to come up with a theory that living things depend on each other to survive.
With that theory in their minds they will then unscramble the essential questions for the unit; 'How do plants and animals interact with and within their environment?'
During this unit students will be grouped together, come up with a specific inquiry question, observe an environment to find the answer to their question, and record and report back their findings.
Students will use the skills and knowledge gained from previous science units to create their own method of recording and displaying their information.
This week we start our final Science unit, Habitats. We will kick if off with an investigation looking at a variety of pictures that show interdependence between different living creatures. Students will look at the connection between the images to come up with a theory that living things depend on each other to survive.
With that theory in their minds they will then unscramble the essential questions for the unit; 'How do plants and animals interact with and within their environment?'
During this unit students will be grouped together, come up with a specific inquiry question, observe an environment to find the answer to their question, and record and report back their findings.
Students will use the skills and knowledge gained from previous science units to create their own method of recording and displaying their information.
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