Week in Review 1/8-1/12

Good afternoon, fourth and fifth grade families!

With homework and a full week behind us, we seem to be back in the swing of lots of learning. Here's a bit of what went on this week:

This Week in Academics:

• We started learning about science topics to help prepare us for the annual science fair
• How are demonstrations and experiments different?
• What are the three diggerent categories of science?
• We learned two methods of dividing that are more visual than the typical long division algorithm. 
• t-chart division
• area model division
• We continued our Gary Paulsen book, Woodsong. Those dogs are always up to something!
• We learned how to properly punctuate possessive nouns. (cat's vs. cats')
• We learned about food waste and some of the ways people, distributors, and restaurants waste food with Ms. C. and Ms. Melissa from Willowbend

Overall, we had a lovely week in the Fisher/ Baker classroom!

Students of the Week

This week's students of the week are...

Emily, Shakira, and Brianna!

Emily did a great job bouncing back and catching up after being gone for a lot of time before the winter break.

Shakira was kind to a classmate by returning something to them when she noticed they left it.

Brianna has been involved in class discussions and staying on top of her notes. 

Thanks for setting a great example and starting 2018 with kindness, positivity, and healthy work habits!

Week in Review: 1/2/18-1/5/18

Happy New Year,  all!

We hope the winter break was restful and filled with quality time together. Now that the crazy pre-holiday season has passed, we're feeling refreshed and ready to tackle the coming months of Marshall events. Here's how we've begun our year together.

This week in academics:

• We began reading another great Gary Paulsen book, Woodsong.
• We had a week filled with FUN-ctuation. We punctuation dialogue, direct addresses, question tags, and intro words. We sure do love commas around here. 😀
• We practiced distinguishing between multiplication and division when facing word problems.
• We practiced a shortcut we call basic fact division involving crossing off zeroes when faced with a problem like, 600 ÷ 30.
• We began learning geometry terms (line, point, collinear points, ray, line segment, parallel, perpendicular, intersecting)
• We started using Front Row, a math practice website that is individualized based on each student.

Looking Ahead:

• Next week, we'll start expert's homework back up.
• Next week, we'll send home the traveling folder, to be signed and returned by Friday.
• Head's up: Science Fair projects are due the last week of February, so we'll begin prepping at the end of this month. 
• NO SCHOOl on MLK day (Monday, January 15th...one week from this coming Monday.)