When I sent home information about the school’s online
access to Grolier I was not sure at that juncture how I would use it in the
classroom. After the past few weeks I can honestly say I cannot imagine the
students not having access to this learning tool. We have used it across all
curriculum, most recently in our explorer study. As a teacher, I love it
because I know everything the students are looking at is safe and links are
vetted. It provides grade level information to support students in their research.
The other day Teddy was searching for an answer to a question using various
websites on explorers I had provides (we got the Grolier account after I
prepared the explorer webquest). I suggested he check Grolier and he excitedly
told me the answer was there! Therefore I highly suggest students use this
resource at home for their Discovery Quests as well! They might even find great
information for their book project or other research endeavors that come up. For log in information visit:
The math homework this evening might require some creative
use of household items to solve the problems. In school we used cubes to act
out some very challenging problems. The cubes helped students to visualize the
problem. I explained the importance of reading the problems slowly, figuring
out what you know, and using tools to help solve the problem. In the past this
lesson has been very challenging for students but with the cubes and some
direct instruction and modeling students were able to power through the word
problems in class. We talked about how they could use legos, pasta, coins,
blocks, shoes, etc. at home to help solve the problems this evening. We will
review for the topic 8 assessment today. The assessment is tomorrow. We will begin our study of fractions Friday!
Students took their winter grammar assessment yesterday and
there was significant growth in our class average. I have been teaching grammar
skills directly in their writing, reading letters, and for those who blog for
spelling. We will be going over the assessment today and it will come home with
your agent as I want you to see what we are asking them to know and understand.
Students struggled with an adjective question where the adjective was “that”.
We watched a BrainPOP on adjectives to remind us of this.
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