Math and Science Week of March 23-27

Parents,

Welcome back from Spring Break!  I hope the break finds you relaxed and refreshed and ready to get back into this rat race!

In Math we will begin to study Polygons and 2D shapes. All students will receive a hole punched sheet with all the shapes that they will be required to know.  2-D shapes will be on the front and 3-D on the back.  This sheet will be put into their green binder that they bring home everyday.  We will be studying the 3 requirements a shape needs in order to be a polygon.

Polygons must be: 1. Flat, 2. closed, 3. and have straight sides.

Here's a fun song about Polygons:
THE POLYGON SONG

All students will need to recognize circles, ovals, triangles, squares, rectangles, rhombuses, parallelograms, trapezoids, pentagons, hexagons, and octagons.  We will be focusing on certain vocabulary such as sides, vertices, and parallel lines.  At the latter end of the week we will focus on congruent shapes what what congruent means.  If two shapes are congruent, it means that they are exactly the same size and same shape.  Students will understand that congruent shapes can be flipped, turned, or upside down, yet they are still congruent.  Next week we will merge into learning about 3-D shapes.

Fast Facts are starting back this week but will not be a grade.  Please study with your child 7-10 minutes every night.


In Science we finished up our Natural Resources unit, and will be moving on to the study of weather and weather tools.  The kids will become familiar with weather balloons, wind vanes, thermometers, barometers, anemometers, hygrometers, rain gauges, and weather satellites.  The kids will become familiar with weather and how exactly meteorologists use the tools mentioned above to make some predictions about what our weather will be like tomorrow.  The kids will closely monitor our weather here in Houston as well for the next ten days.

Important things this week:
Monday-counselor lesson on Monday
Thursday-10:50 awards ceremony in DC for 3rd nine weeks

It's going to be a great week back!
Love,
Ms. S