Week of January 29, 2018

Upcoming events:
1/31 - Early dismissal 

Resources this week:
Cox:
Wednesday - Music
Friday - Art

ELA:
Please view Mrs. Townsend's dojo site for reading activities and information for the week.

Math:

In math we will begin to develop an understanding of fractions as numbers.  The students will partition or break apart a whole into equal parts, identifying and counting unit fractions using models or fraction strips.  They will describe the shares using the words halves, thirds, fourths, sixths, and eighths, and recognize that equal shares of identical wholes may not have the same shape.

                               

Things to practice and review at home:

Help your child partition things at home into equal parts (exa.  Pack of crayons, pieces of food, paper, pizza, 6 pack of sodas)

Practice adding and subtracting numbers within 1000.

Continue to review multiplication and division facts 2 to 10  

Practice solving two step word word problems involving all four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division).
Continue working on number patterns exa: 350, 344, 338, 332, ......
Please use the following site for homework help:
http://www.oakdale.k12.ca/ENY_Hmwk_Intro_math

Science:

The students will begin to gather information on specific stars to help them create a star poster in class with information about the size, color, brightness and interesting facts about their particular star.  (This research will be done both at home and in class.)  We will continue  learning about the sun’s energy and observe what effect sunlight has on objects.