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 the link below and sign up for a time to meet. If you have any questions or need help getting signed up please call the office at 503-356-2510. I look forward to meeting to each family!

https://ptcfast.com/schools/West_Tualatin_View_Elementary


Continent Club
The next Continent Club check day will be on Thursday, 3/19. The continent to study is South America. The study materials can be accessed at the link below. 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qHUwK073iSKY2dKTb9zrZpfhHrMokvYV

Idiom of the Week: In the doghouse 


Upcoming Dates
  • Tuesday, March 10th - Reading Logs Due/Vocab Test
  • Thursday, March 19th - Continent Club - South America
  • Week of March 23rd - March 27th - No School - Spring Break

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