We have had a fantastic week of learning in Room 16!

This week is Computer Science Education week. To celebrate we participated in The Hour of Code.  Students learned how to use the program blockly to write code to solve some maze puzzles. 13,732,013 students have participated in and completed an hour of coding this week! Each child received a certificate for participating.  If your child was one of the many that fell in love with coding, check out code.org for more lessons and activities!

Math – Finally, we have made it to the digit-by-digit method for division. This is the method that you and I learned in school.  We will continue to practice this method with larger numbers and we will also spend some more time on working with those pesky zeros in our quotients.

Reading – We finished reading The Tiger Rising and had a great discussion about recurring themes in stories as well as motifs.  Ask your child what motifs they found!  What is the message or the take away that they will take with them from this book?

Writing – We are continuing to build our personal essays.  Students have developed a thesis, came up with three reasons that support their thesis and have written a story for each reason that supports their reason.  Students also learned how to create parallelism in lists, or, how to write a list of things that support their reason.

Science – We are continuing to explore the different states of matter.  So far we have explored the properties of solids and liquids.  Ask you child if they can tell you what the physical properties of matter are and what the properties of solids and liquids are.

Check out these pictures of our learning!