Next week is going to be fast and furious! We have so much going on between a regular lessons, Curriculum Night on Thursday, AND Progress Reports going home!
In Math this coming week we will still be working on Place Value. We will focus on five and six digit numbers for most of the week. I will teach the students several Math Station games to reinforce learning in the classroom on Place Value. Ask your child to teach you the Skeleton Place Value Game or Hexa-Digit Roll at home. In the later part of the we will be taking what we have learned over the last five weeks with place value, and applying it to rounding. Early in the week, I will introduce rounding two digit numbers to the nearest ten. We use a fun roller coaster flip chart to introduce rounding and the kids really enjoy it a lot. The roller coaster theory is pretty simple to relate to as well. We talk about "THE POINT OF NOOOOOOO RETURN," when rounding. Once the roller coaster reaches the top of the track (5,15,25,35,45,etc...), it has reached "THE POINT OF NO RETURN," and must swoop down to the bottom, thus rounding to the nearest ten ahead. If the roller coaster doesn't quite make it to the top, it will fall backwards and we will then round to the nearest ten behind.
In Science this week, we will be diving deeper into Matter and focusing on the Three States of Matter. Our main objective for the week is for each student to observe and evaluate a substance/object, and then determine if it is a solid, liquid, or gas based on the properties/characteristics that it contains. They will discover that the particles in each state of matter are different and how that affects the properties of that object. Does it change it shape? Does it pour? Etc....
Above are the particles first a solid, then a liquid, and last a gas for visual reference.
Looking forward to seeing you at Curriculum Night on Thursday!
Ms. Skrivanek
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