Week of 3/13/2017

Ahoy!

I am so sorry for the late post! Here is all the great things happening in our room this week.

Reading: We are continuing to learn about extreme environments that people live it. The rest of the week we will be looking at the Sami people of northern Sweden, Finland, and Norway. Our students have been very interested in all of the amazing places that people live, and how they survive in those places. While reading about this topic we have been focusing on finding the main idea and supporting details of a text! If you are looking to support this work at home you can try finding passages at readworks.org! 

Writing: The students are using their new knowledge about extreme places to live to help them write an informational essay. They will be slowly working through each part of the essay for the next week or two.

Math: We are diving in head first to our unit! Our learning this week has been focusing on finding elapsed time, and learning how to measure liquid volume and mass using the metric system. This will continue into next week before we switch to fractions. If you are looking to support your child's learning they can log on to our new program at ixl.com. We are just starting to use this program in our class and the students are really enjoying it! Please email me for your students username and password. 

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Mystery Questions:
1) When does spring occur in the Northern Hemisphere? What date to what date?
2) Name two flowers that are planted as bulbs.
3) Name two forms of severe weather that occur in the United States in the spring.
4) What is the Latin word for spring?
5) During spring the Earth's axis starts to tilt towards __________. (Fill in the blank.)
6) What was Daylight Savings Time originally used for?

Have a great rest of your week!
Miss Irwin