What We Are Learning
Reading: Students have finished the novel, Tuck Everlasting. They have been exploring the theme of the
text. Now, the students are acting as
journalist to write newspaper articles from the fictional setting in the book,
Treegap.
Technology: Did you know that students have an extra class this year to
learn about new technology and help integrate it into the classroom? We are using the new Chromebooks in our
school to write our Treegap articles!
Writing: Finally we received our first letters from our Guatemalan pen
pals! The students were very excited to
receive them. They are writing their responses, and will include a postcard of Cape Cod on the back.
Math: We are finishing up a
chapter on data and probability. This
unit leads us nicely into the next chapter on fractions. This will be a rigorous chapter with many new
concepts. Encourage your child to
persevere. If you stay positive so will
she/he!
Moday,
January 19th
Martin
Luther King Day
No
School
January
26-30th
EFES
Great Kindness Challenge
PeaceBuilders
Congratulations, Alexis, for being voted our PeaceBuilder of the
month in December! The PeaceBuilder
principle of the month for January is “Give Up Put Downs”.
PARCC
We
are learning together about the new PARCC assessment, which will replace MCAS
this year. Soon, we will start giving
the students sample problems from the PARCC as both homework and
classwork. This will help students
become familiar with the format of the test.
They will take the PARCC in March and May.
