February

February is I Love To Read Month. In our classroom we have been promoting reading all year long with our reading goals and incentives. This month we will be continuing with tracking our reading as well as we will be doing some activities in the classroom. We will also be doing some special activities with our reading buddies to celebrate I Love To Read Month.

We are also in the midst of a social studies project. The students are busy reasearching explorers. We hope to have this project done in a few weeks.

We are continuing with the study of WWII and there are two novels being read in the classroom. Number the Stars and Snow Treasure are both novels about young children living in war torn countries during WWII. We are working on group work and respecting each other's opinions in our literature groups. It is nice to see the students take an interest in WWII topics, have empathy for the people during the war, and appreciate the freedoms they have today. There will be an end of unit test on the novels and an individual project when they are finished reading the books.

In Math we are working on 2 digit by 2 digit multiplication. We learned a new way to solve the equations and many students caught on to the concept well. I know that many parents may be a bit confused with the concepts. The reason I am showing the students two ways is because we all learn in different ways. Some students will understand and have success with the new way and others will do well with the old way we all learned when we were in school. I am showing them both ways and they can choose which way is best for them to work out the answers.


We will be having a multiplication test very soon and a review will be sent home.

I will post the due dates for the ss explorer project and math test soon.

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