REPEAT INFORMATION
Asynchronous Early Release Mondays/Staff PD Day
Yikes! I thought we were done typing/reading that word :) Well, DPI and the MMSD School District has informed us that we need to make up instructional minutes for those three days students missed in January right after Winter Break. In an attempt not to add minutes to the day or adding days at the end of the year, your child have an assignment in SeeSaw every Monday (see below). This will begin Monday, April 25th.This will be independent work and up to your family to use as you see fit.
Mondays will look something like:
(Friday, May 27th will look a bit different--more to come.)
To Do:
- Lexia (30 minutes)
- DreamBox (30 minutes)
- Independent Reading (30 minutes)
- AL opportunities in SeeSaw (optional)
Math
- This week we practiced our learning to try and figure some story problems using partial products and partial quotients.
- We took a a couple of quizzes.
- We continued to work with one another on story problems, using estimation to help us find reasonable answers, and discussed how to handle remainders in ways that made logical sense.
Science
- We began our final science unit on Ecosystem Restoration. We will be answering the question:
- How do organisms in an ecosystem get the matter and and energy they need to grow and thrive?
- This week we continued to learn and think about:
- "Why aren't the jaguars and sloths growing and thriving?
Literacy
- Word Work this week involved lessons on prefix/suffix/root word spelling and meaning.
- Whole Group Reading continued with work on point of view and perspective.
- Quarter 4 writing genre will be opinion. This week we looked at some organization maps to help us plan our writing. We also started on our first topic plan.
- Next week, we will take our plan and develop it to a more formal version.
