The Week Ahead 2/25 - 3/1

Math
4th grade was hit pretty hard this week with the flu, so we decided to move the mid unit assessment back to Monday, 2/25. Students can play Prodigy to practice their fraction skills at home.


Reading
From this point forward each time a group finishes a book, the members will make a book report. The students get to choose how they want to display knowledge of their book, so far some of the ways students have selected to share their knowledge include making a video, making a timeline of the story, making a poster, and making a diorama. Time will be given in class, but if a students wants to work on it at home they can. Have your student tell you what they plan on doing for their book report. 

Idiom of the week: see eye to eye

How We Organize Ourselves
Next week our class will be turned into the legislative branch of the Oregon state government. The students will be divided into State Senators and State Representatives. Each child will be placed on a committee that will work on crafting a bill they want to become a classroom law. At the end of our unit each committee's bill will be voted on by the House and Senate. If the bills pass the House and Senate, they will be brought to Governor Blanc's desk. If Governor Blanc signs the bill they will become classroom laws for the remainder of the year. Ask your student which committee they are on.

Field Trip
Our tour of the Capitol Building in Salem will be on Thursday, 2/28. Our bus is leaving at 8:45, so please make sure your student arrives to school on time that day. If you are a chaperone please come to our class at 8:30 so we can set up our groups. When we get to Salem we will first meet with Governor Brown for a few minutes and then we will get a guided tour of the Capitol Building. We expect to return to West TV at about 1:30.

Upcoming Dates
  • Monday, February 25th - Fractions Assessment
  • Tuesday, February 26th - Reading Log Due/Vocabulary Test
  • Thursday, February 28th - Tour of State Capitol Building 8:45-1:30
  • Saturday, March 9th - West TV Auction
  • Monday, March 25th - Friday, March 29th - No School - Spring Break

Popular posts from this blog

The Week Ahead 9/3-9/7

First Week We had a great first week of school! My goals for us were to get to know each other, come to an understanding of classroom agreements and norms, and begin to collect some baseline data on where we are academically. We accomplished these goals and I think we're in for a fun year! Headphones Please have your student bring headphones to school. If you are unable to get headphones for your child, let me know and I'll make sure they are provided. Stay Connected Instagram Follow our class Instagram account at blanc.wstv. Here I'll be posting pictures of what we're up to. Seesaw Another way you can stay connected with our class is Seesaw. You can think of Seesaw as a digital portfolio. This is where your student will share their learning. How to sign up Click on this link:   https://app.seesaw.me/s/819-043-150 Choose your child from the list Create your account Once I approve you, you can see content from your child After you sign up, downloa
Read more

The Week Ahead 3/2-3/6

How We Organize Ourselves Thank you to all of the chaperones who joined us for our field trip to the State Capitol! Hopefully you have had a chance to check out some of the pictures from the trip on our class Instagram account, blanc.wstv. On Friday, our classroom committees presented their classroom bills. There was fierce debate but in the end, only one of the five bills got a majority vote in both the House of Representatives and Senate and is now a classroom law. Have your student tell you what they think of the new classroom law. Last Monday, I sent you an email letting you know that we will begin teaching our state mandated Erin's Law lessons next Monday, 3/2. In the email I sent a link that included information on the learning outcomes as well as a link to a website with more information. If you review these materials and decide you want your student to opt out of the lessons, please contact the office and they will get you the opt out form. Students that opt out will do
Read more

The Week Ahead 3/9-3/13

Inquiry Next week we'll begin our Where We Are in Place and Time inquiry unit. The central idea of this unit is migration impacts individuals and communities. The lines of inquiry are reasons for migration, ways migration impacts quality of life, and impact on current groups. In the beginning of the unit we'll learn about migration by studying westward expansion, starting with the Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark led Corps of Discovery. Math Students will continue their study of fractions next week. Up to this point our main focus has been working with equivalence and comparing fractions. Two of the big ideas students should grasp are for fractions to be equivalent, the ratio must be kept constant and the greater the denominator, the smaller the pieces. Next week the students will work on adding and subtracting fractions with like denominators. Conferences Spring Parent/Teacher Conferences will take place the first week of April. Please go to
Read more