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2.3.14-2.7.14 Week in Review

The Happenings in Room 406

Hello Parents and Guardians!! As February begins we have been very busy in room 406.  
 In ELA we have begun out third unit called "Animals are Charactes, too!" We are talking about personification (giving human characteristics to non-human things). We read the book The Mouse and The Motorcycle and have spent this last week working with Aesop's Fables. The students have read The Lion and The Mouse as well as many others. Their assignment was to pair up with a partner, choose their favorite fable, create puppets and act out the fable for the other students. Then the class had to guess what the moral or lesson of the fable was. They had a lot of fun with this and the play-acting turned out really great! We will be begin reading another book Because of Win Dixie next week sometime. We are also going to be doing a research project where the students will pick an animal and write a report on that animal. 

In math we have finished out Unit #4 where we worked with multi-step multiplication, division, addition and subtraction problems. Within these lessons we learned about situation and solution equations using variables (letters) and numbers. This is probably the first time that most of the students have had to use algebraic thinking so it was a challenge, but a challenge well received by the students. They did a great job with homework and quick quizzes. We will be doing out review of Unit #4 on Monday and hopefully testing either Tuesday or Thursday of next week. We will then begin Unit #5 where we will be learning about measurement. 

This next week is going to be quite a busy week here at HIS. We have P/T Conferences Monday and Wednesday, an early release Wednesday, Jump Rope for Hearts Thursday and Valentine's Day on Friday. Please look in your students' assignment notebook as I have sent home a letter explaining our plan for the Valentine's Party on Friday 2/14. Please excuse some of the typos! I was in a hurry and apparently did not proof-read the letter before I printed it out...oops! :( 

Keep up the great work as parents! I am so blessed to be working with a wonderful parent group this year. You have helped me succeed in so many ways as a first year teacher this year and I truly appreciate you enthusiasm for learning and your eagerness to see you children succeed. :) 

Happy Friday! Enjoy your weekend and stay warm.

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