SCHOOL DISTRICT #202
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February 16, 2016
This Week at a Glance
Mrs. O’Shea’s Classes
Language Arts
Our reading contest ends tomorrow! Students will get
an update today of their totals and may fill out books
slips and take AR tests until tomorrow. Students will
be receiving new goal sheets for our third trimester
contest! In writing, students will be pulling all of their
paragraphs together and working on final revision and
editing. They have created a cover page. They may
also work on a word cloud to represent the big ideas
and character traits of their famous person. In reading, students will continue to synthesize information
when reading various types of text. They will also
work to write about the ideas that they have researched to try to expand upon their thoughts. We
will refer back to the “Ways to Push Your Thinking”
anchor chart so that students will integrate theses new
ideas seamlessly in their writing about their research.
Math
This week, we continue our fraction work.
Students will complete an exit slip assessing their ability to compare fractions.
We have been working on comparing fractions to a benchmark of 1/2 and ordering
fractions from least to greatest and greatest to least. We have also been learning
games to practice comparing fractions.
Ask your child how to compare fractions
using just a deck of cards! We will continue
to work this week on using common denominators. As a class, we are struggling
to quickly see the common factors between
two or three fractions. We will list the multiples of both of the denominators and find
the common number to start!
This Week at a Glance
Science… Earth Materials
Social Studies… Region Research
In the Spotlight/ Second Step Lesson:
Lesson 12—Calming Down Anger
Important Dates…
Mrs. Stefani’s Classes
Language Arts
Our work with identifying themes in poetry
started last week as we completed some
PARCC practice. We have been using the poem, “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” by Maya Angelou to follow the steps of close reading. The
students are collecting text evidence, looking
for patterns and developing new understandings based on the patterns they find. In the
end, the students read a sample literary response that was supported with text evidence.
They color coded the response to try to see
the basic format for these types of responses.
They then worked with a partner to try their
own written responses. We will continue to
identify text structure in nonfiction this week
and begin coding the structures in annotations. Finally, the students will have time to
edit famous person reports this week, too.
Math
Angles will be the focus of our lessons
during the rest of the week. The class will
be asked to determine the measures of
angles based on their understanding of the
number of degrees in a circle, triangle,
straight angle, etc. Protractors will also
be used to find exact measures of angles,
and they will learn how to draw angles
with given measurements.
I CAN Statements:
 I can measure angles using a protractor.
 I can sketch angles of a given degree using a
protractor.
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I can identify benchmark angles (90°, 180°,
270°, 360°).
I can separate angles into smaller angles and
add angle measures to make a larger angle.
I can use addition and subtraction to find
unknown angles.
Tues. 2/16– Community Engagement LJH
7:00
Fri. 2/19– Abe Lincoln Visits 4th Grade
Mon. 2/22—Standards Based Grading Power Hour 6:15-7:15 at SES
Notes:
Thank you to the Valentine’s
Day party volunteers! We had a
wonderful celebration with many
fun activities planned!