Our Week In Review

We made it! The first week back from vacation was a challenge, but we did great!

In Math, we began a unit learning about Area and Perimeter. This is a short unit, and we will already be taking our Unit 8 test next week. Here are a couple of websites your child can use to practice area and perimeter.

*For information on each, click here.
*Fun Brain
*Math Playground (practice measuring)

In English, we began learning about adverbs. The parts of speech are starting to get tricky to remember. Use the links below to watch the Schoolhouse Rock videos on each topic (I have used the site teachertube.com, and there is a short ad before each video. You can also find the videos by searching on YouTube).
*nouns
*verbs
*adjectives
*adverbs

We wrapped up a writing prompt this week. The topic that the students had to write about was " A Time I Was Helpful". Ask your child what he/she chose to write about this time.

This afternoon we went to the computer lab and spent 45 min-1 hour using different sites to research about Washington, DC and the monuments. This was the last bit of research we will do at school. There are a few books in the classroom that the children may borrow. I also recommend that they use the Internet (with parent permission) to find more information as needed. Some of the children chose monuments that were not linked from our page, so they may have to look a little deeper if they choose those monuments. Here is the link to our class website, with a few sites already book marked about this. This site might help if your child has chosen the Smithsonian. There are many more sites that can be found.

You may have heard that we have started a unit on Mythology. The children are really excited about this unit of study, and many of them have already read many myths. We will continue to learn about mythology for the next few weeks.