Weekly Update 12/1

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and enjoyed the break!  Here’s what we’re working on this week.  As a reminder, the daily activities will be listed in your child’s planner.

Math
We are finishing up on our unit on fractions and decimals this week.  We will be looking more at the relationship between fractions and decimals and play some games to help develop a sense of those relationships.  We will also look at their relationship on a number line.  

Social Studies
This week we are learning about the Native people that first lived in Washington.  This chapter ties in with what they learned during Of Cedar & Salmon. 

Reading
Your child is reading “Nights of the Pufflings,” a nonfiction article that is written and photographed by Bruce McMillian.  The selection describes how puffins, which are small sea birds, come to shore on an island near Iceland to raise their chicks.  It also tells how, on the nights when the young birds leave their nests and attempt to fly out to sea, the children of the island help by rescuing baby birds that crash-land on the island.  These children later release the rescued birds into the sea. 

Other Notes

Just a reminder, there is Late Start on Wednesday and Friday is a Half Day.  

Many of you may have noticed there were no spelling words in the planner on Wednesday.  In all hullabaloo that was the day before Thanksgiving, it simply was glossed over.  There will not be a spelling test this week, but a new list will go out on Wednesday.

We start going to the computer lab on a weekly basis this week.  We will be working on our keyboarding skills every Wednesday.  Speed is not our focus, but more the ability to type a story in one sitting.

Have a great week!

Excelsior!
~Ms. B