I know these next two months are going to fly by and we have a lot going on so I wanted to give you an overview. If your kiddos have already been talking to you about saving recyclables, it's because we are going to be using them in two projects: creating goods we can sell by reusing recyclables as part of our Economics unit and creating environmentally friendly homes as part of our on-going Conservation unit. If you could collect them and set them aside in a box in your house for now, I will tell the students when they need to bring them in. Tomorrow we will be interviewing an entrepreneur through Skype and learning about the challenges and rewards of starting a business as we think about what products we could make out of some of the recyclables that consumers would want to buy. If you want to see some of the inspiring real-life homes we've been looking at in order to get ideas for our environmentally friendly homes, check out www.ecofriendlyhouses.net Very cool!!
In Math, we are wrapping up Unit 4 and will have our test over area and perimeter, identifying shapes and partitioning them into fractions onMonday, 2/8:
Further develop understandings of geometric figures by focusing on identification and descriptions of plane figures based on geometric properties. • Identifies examples and non-examples of plane figures based on geometric properties. • Identify differences among quadrilaterals. • Understand that shapes in different categories may share attributes and those attributes can define a larger category (example: rhombuses, rectangles, and others have four sides and are all called quadrilaterals). • Expand the ability to see geometry in the real world. • Can draw plane figure shapes based on attributes. • Further develop understanding of partitioning shapes into parts with equal areas. • Partitions shapes in several different ways into equal parts of halves, thirds, fourths, sixths, and eighths and recognizes the partitioned parts have the same area. • Use data collected to make bar and picture graphs. • Interpret line plots. • Find the perimeter of polygons; use addition to find perimeters; solve for an unknown length and recognize the patterns that exist when finding the sum of the lengths and widths of rectangles.
In March, we have three upcoming field trips! One to the Alliance Theater on 3/8 and the other is to the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area on 3/15. In addition, we have just scheduled an in-house field trip with High Tech High Touch as part of our Heat unit on 4/11. Be on the look out for permission slips to come home soon. :)
Enjoy your Sunday and please let me know if you have any questions!!
Jenny M-G
www.mrsm-g.blogspot.com
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