Dear Parents,
I hope that you had a wonderful and relaxing spring break! We started to review in all grade levels. Look out for homework problems every night and a variety of content. During enrichment time this week, students participated in a fun STEM challenge and some teams and individuals met the criteria. Their names and heights of the towers are posted on the Wall of Fame in my classroom. Thank you to all those parents at home who helped their virtual learners gather supplies. It was so much fun to watch everyone build. We will be exploring another engineering challenge this week related to Earth Day. Gemmill Time - 2nd Grade Update Fruit Bowl Brain Busters really stretched their thinking and forced them to analyze the relationship between numbers. Following up on that skill, students worked on the website https://logiclike.com/. It offers a variety of challenges that tap into algebraic thinking. We did not use an account. Students worked together on my account. Please check it out if you are interested. It might be a good supplement to ST Math. I will be meeting with in person second graders on Monday and Tuesday and have already communicated with those parents summarizing the remaining lessons for the school year. Gemmill Time - 3rd Grade Update Growing and Shrinking patterns were our focus at the beginning of the week. Some students even took the opportunity to challenge themselves by working on extending patterns. We followed up by playing Roll a Rule with dice and I loved how students suggested creative ways to make the game more challenging using multiplication and two digit numbers. Seesaw homework was given at the beginning of the week. Students should be creating new slides in order to show their work. I saw students using fingers every day this week. Please have them work on fact fluency. Gemmill Time - 4th Grade Update We started off the week revisiting elapsed time. Students practiced measurement conversions and we ended the week becoming word problem experts and coaching one another through tricky situations. Most hiccups came as students were faced with double digit multiplication and long division. We will continue to practice basic computation this week to keep these skills fresh in their minds. Homework will be assigned every night as we continue to review concepts and prepare for the SOLs. Gemmill Time - 5th Grade Update Practice and Projects… We are working to balance the tedium of practice with an engaging mathematical project called Geometrocity. Students worked in teams to complete SOL review and then once checked by me they could move into Phase One of the project. Most are finishing Phase Two the design phase and beginning Phase Three as they build the 3D nets for their buildings. We will pause the project in order to practice the next section of review. Students will finish what they can on the projects by the end of the week and we will attach our city blocks and hopefully program ozobots to travel through our Geometrocity streets. Comments are closed.
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