Pushes and Pulls

The temperatures last week were optimal for rolling snowballs.

Important Upcoming Dates
January 25th - K-1 Literacy Night - more information to come - 5 PM - Flyer
February 15th - Informance Performance with Ms. Huckabone - 2:30 PM
February 12th - NAAPID Parent Involvement Day

NAAPID Parent Involvement Day is Monday, February 12th
In honor of National African American Parent Involvement Day (NAAPID) A2STEAM invites all parents, guardians and adult family members to visit our school.  In the coming weeks I will have a sign up of times on February 12th when you can join our class and help with different lessons and activities.  It will be fun.  If your child would like to participate in the poster contest for NAAPID, this flyer has more information.

Penny Wars
Send in some spare change and help the 8th graders take a trip to Chicago!  Click here for more information.

Curriculum Overview
Project Lead The Way -  We will begin working on new Project Lead the Way unit called ‘Pushes and Pulls’.  Students will learn about basic physics and the forces they experience in their life (using the swing on a playground, playing tug-of-war, dropping something).  Students will also be introduced to the idea that some forces like gravity, magnetism, and wind are invisible. 

Science - Last week students learned about the seasons as part of our year long exploration of weather and weather patterns.

Reading -  As we read about forces (see above) we are reviewing the features of a non-fiction text (table of contents, index, captions).  We are also reviewing the difference between fiction and non-fiction.

Writing - Students are working on an opinion writing piece, writing about our favorite seasons.

Math - This week we are looking closely at place value and understanding tens and ones.  Students will see that numbers like 15 are one ten and five ones.  Students will be able to break apart numbers into their tens and ones (see drawing below).

Word Study - Students will practice counting the syllables in words.

Thirty-six has 3 tens and 6 ones.