Looking Ahead!

No School on Friday, April 15.  It is a Furlough Day for Teachers.

At Home Help Needed

 If you have time to come in and learn how to look up books on the computer and locate some Call Numbers for many of us, we would be grateful.  After you learn the process from Mrs. Costa, our Media Specialist, you can work on this project at home at your convenience.  Thank you in advance for your efforts.  

GEOMETRY TIME

Last week we reviewed attributes that describe both two and three dimensional shapes.  Our State Standards require the children to be familiar with terminology such as:  straight, congruent, curved, corners, verticies, edges; all the two dimensional shape names including rhombus, trapezoid, hexagon, as well as all of the three dimensional shape names including rectangular prism, triangular prism, peramid, cone, cube, cylinder and sphere.  Please reinforce these concepts at home as well.

This week we are talking about symmetry with two dimensional shapes.  We'll be talking about symmetry side by side as well as the difference between being congruent.  Sometimes shapes are flipped and can be both symmetrical and congruent.  Fun learning ahead!!

HOMEWORK:  Please find things in nature or outside that have symmetry and send to school.

More Math At Home

Guess the Box:
Gather a few small boxes and cans that are different sizes and shapes.  Take turns describing the shape of one container.  The other person tries to figure out which can or box is being described.

Sandwich Shapes:
Make sandwiches and cut them in half (or thirds or fourths) before serving.  What different shapes can you make?

Grocery Store:
When you take your child to the grocery store, look at some of the boxes and describe their shapes.  Can you find boxes that have square faces, rectangular faces, or circular faces?

WRITE ABOUT EVERYTHING!!

The Shape Of Things - Geometry

Just as numbers are the words that let us speak the language of math, shapes like squares, triangles, and circles are the vehicles--let's call them "spaceshapes"--that launch us into a whole new mathematical dimension.  Mathematicians and scientists are continually using the things they learn about shapes in nature to come up with handy inventions.  A bottle of roll-on antiperspirant works the same way as a ball-and socket joints in our boddies!  And so does a ballpoint pen!

So, get ready to discover lots of things about geometric shapes.  Let's start by READING TRAFFIC SIGNS.  Long before you can read the words on a sign, you can often tell what signs are going to say just by looking at their shapes.  Please look for signs that are shapes.  Try to determine if the are WARNING shapes, YIELD (or give way) shapes, CROSSING shapes, or REGULATION shapes.  Please make a list and draw the shapes and be able to describe what the signs mean.  HAVE FUN!!  Write about your findings and send to school.  Please use complete sentences with correct punctuation, capital letters and spacing.

NO SCHOOL ON FRIDAY. MARCH 11

We will be having a grading day this coming Friday so the students will not be having school.  Thank you so much!  Have a great, long weekend.

SPELLING

I know that some of you may be continuing to wonder why I choose the words I do for their weekly spelling list.  I go through their writing for the week and take a look at their writing pieces and if I continue to see words that are misspelled in their daily writing, then I will list it again on the list to study.  I am working on giving the kids a variety of tools to apply their spelling words in order for them to make sense in context to a sentence with the hopes that they will make the transfer to their personal writing. I'm not discouraged.  I'm quite encouraged at the growth your child is making here at school.  Be looking for spelling homework to come home in the Friday Folders on March 4.

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