Pinebrook Kindergarten teachers and students enjoyed a wonderful fall day at Patterson Farm on Friday, October
14th. Teachers were happy to have so many parents attend our first field trip of the year.
Parents should mark their calendars for our next special event in kindergarten. On Tuesday, November 22nd the
student will be dressing up as Pilgrims, Indians, and Turkeys. Parents will enjoy hearing their child sing
Thanksgiving songs. Parents will receive more information soon.
Classes are writing about Fall and the many changes we see this time of year. It is truly amazing to see how much
the children have learned since the beginning of the year. Kindergarten is the beginning of a wonderful experience
for our little friends.
First grade students in Wendy Drane's class got into the fall and Halloween spirit by completing haunted houses with
counting to one hundred. In spelling, the class is reviewing previous units and sight words. Beginning subtraction
and writing number sentences has been a focus for math. The students are excited about starting a new basal book
which has several stories about living in different types of communities.
Mrs. Miller's second graders have been working hard learning four different strategies to solve two digit addition
problems and two digit subtraction as well! They can now solve math problems without regrouping using base ten
blocks, stacking, open number lines and take apart. They are ready to learn more about place value! We have been
studying sound during science and learning about pitch and volume as well as how sounds are made! Students are
going to have the chance to show off their homemade music instruments next week. Of course we have also been
reading, reading, reading and are having some good discussions about author’s purpose, main idea and details!
Photos included:
IMG_6334.JPG - Cole Spade and Brady Carter working hard on the take apart strategy with a two digit subtraction
problem.
IMG_6327.JPG - Giovanni Ibarra teaching the others in his group how to use an open number line to solve a two
digit subtraction problem.
Fourth graders have been reviewing multiplication through review centers. During the centers, students made
properties of addition and multiplication flip books and explored multiplication as a comparison using QR codes to
check their answers. They also used problem solving to work through multi-step word problems, and built
rectangular arrays and made models to find the factors of given numbers.
Students in Mrs. Kovich's Fifth Grade class have been exploring Latin and Greek roots. We focus on ten words each
week that originate from the same root. As we define our new terms, students use a visual reinforcement. For
example, the root ject = throw, so our vocabulary notebooks were full of baseballs and footballs with definitions. We
are finding root words everywhere! Science, Math -- you read it and we'll show you how to break it down.