Classroom News:
- Penguin Plunge: February 7
- February 18: Delayed Start
- February 22-March 3: No School
Do you have an old pair of snow pants or boots? We could use them as extras for when students forget to bring some to school. Feel free to send them in and we will put them in the extra clothing locker.
Penguin Plunge
Winooski School District has a Penguin Plunge team made up of staff, students, parents, and other family members. I am doing it for the second year and this time around my aunt is joining the team too! I'm so excited to help support Vermont Special Olympics. Feel free to come on down to the lake on Saturday, February 7 to cheer on Team Winooski! Or better yet, join the team yourself! You can register, donate, or find out more information through this link: Penguin Plunge.
Literacy
We finished up our study of how readers read nonfiction texts and we are back to looking at fiction. As usual, our focus is on how readers think about books and the questions they ask themselves. This month we take a close look at the characters in fiction texts. As we read we ask questions about the characters:
- What is my character doing?
- Why did my character do it?
Math
We finished up our measurement unit and are not working on deepening our understanding of the number system and the many ways flexible mathematicians can work with numbers.
One strategy for working with numbers is to create a "friendly number." This is a number that is easier to work with, for example the number 10. We call this strategy Make 10.
In the example to the left, the student is adding 6 + 9. They know that 6 + 4 = 10, so they take 4 out of the 9, that makes the new equation:
6+4+5=n.
10+5 is easy to add, so the student knows n=15.
By working with this strategy, students are becoming more flexible in decomposing (breaking apart) and composing (putting together) numbers. Then, the students start applying this to story problems and addition equations with larger numbers.
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