April 18, 2014

This update is from Miss Borowski

Classroom News:

What a busy week it has been! We have learned so much such as how to solve problems multiple ways during math as well as completing our Complex Instruction rotations to continue learning about sound waves. 

We have vacation next week. School starts back up on April 28th. 

Literacy Focus:

This week we continued our author study of Leo Lionni. This week we read Fish is Fish and Frederick. We focused on discussing character traits of characters in the book as well as what the big idea of each book is.

Math Focus:

This week we continued to use our additive reasoning strategies to help solve problems. We learned that mathematicians often use more then one way to solve problems. Students persevered solving a problem at least two different ways by using our additive reasoning strategies of Make 10, Base Ten Blocks, Counting On, and Fact Families.

Science/Social Thinking:

During science, we continued to learn about sound waves and how sound is made. To further explore sound waves, students participated in our Complex Instruction rotations. Students worked in groups and completed three different activities. These activities included building an instrument to demonstrate how sound is made, creating a song about sound waves, and making a sound wave poster. Students had to work together in order complete these different tasks. 

This picture shows a group working together to create a sound wave poster.

 

These past two weeks have been such a great experience! I am so glad to have had this teaching opportunity.

Miss Borowski