November 27, 2014

Mud City is our next read aloud that our classes will be doing. Mrs. Witmer (Ms. Rauser's student teacher) and Mr. Lam (Mrs. Cooper's student teacher) will be taking the leadership with this book and using many different kinds of teaching strategies to make it exciting and engaging.

In math, the students were introduced to using arrays as a strategy to do repeated addition/multiplication.  Students were provided time to practice this strategy while working on their family menu.  They are beginning to add up how much their family spends on meals each day.  This is being used to compare meals and the cost of food around the world.  

Ask your child what their big question is that they have chosen to investigate.  We made our final decisions about the DEEP THINKING QUESTION that we are most interested in.  Students will become experts in their chosen topic. Further information will follow as we move forward to the steps students are taking to gather resources and how they are going to plan their approach to their BIG problem.

Parent teacher conferences are Thursday, December 4th and Friday December 5th. Please remember to sign up on conference manager to meet with your child's teacher.