Good Afternoon,
A few quick notes for you from the Chameleon class.
This week in English I gave pupils the date for them
to be completed with their final published piece of persuasive writing. I will
begin to grade and conference with children about this on Monday 13th
March. This still leaves pupils with 2 weeks to work on and improve their
writing. I’ll continue to meet with children related to their writing and check
to see if all the strategies that I am teaching are being used. If you could
ask your child to read their letter allowed to you, I feel this could help
pupils greatly to notice their own mistakes.
In maths this week children have been working on our
volume unit, this has been a very short unit without that much content. The
main areas have been converting between L to ml and then solving various
problems involving volume measures. Children have now become quite adept at
converting units of measure. There are some still finding this difficult, once
we have completed this unit I will be spending some time reviewing everything
we have done within the measurement block. This will include teaching a
slightly different skill that can help greatly with conversion. On Wednesday we
had an amazing math lesson in which children created and measured their own
juices. Everyone in the Chameleon class seemed to enjoy this and got a lot out
of measuring the liquids precisely, on top of that some of the juices were
delicious!! I just want to say a massive thank you to parents who purchased
juices for that session, it was well worth it.
Pupils have worked hard on their presentations and
should now be at a point ready to present on Tuesday 28th. For those
who are not quite ready, they may require some time over the weekend to
complete this. I’m really looking forward to seeing their presentation as I
feel like I am genuinely going to be learning some things.
If you have any worries or concerns about your child
going on the Wegscheide field trip you need to contact me before March 1st.
If you do not contact me I will assume your child is coming, this is important
for us to calculate the cost of the trip.
Important Dates:
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27th February –
Rosenmontag, school closed
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28th February – Carnival
party in the afternoon. Pupils able to come to school in costume.
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28th February – Science
presentations due
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13th March – Published
persuasive letter due
Here is an overview of the areas of study we will
focus on throughout the next week:
English:
Within writers workshop we will be continuing to
improve our persuasive arguments with the new rubric that was given out to
children, they will also begin to me with me in their pairs. This will ensure
that I meet with children more regularly and that they are getting strong
guided support from their partner.
We will continue to analyze and read non-fiction texts
critically. We will be continuing our small research project in Readers
Workshop, children are now in groups and are researching a type of extreme
weather. Children are already making good progress with this.
Math:
On Monday we will complete the check in quiz for the
volume unit. After this we will be beginning a review of everything we’ve done
so far, firstly revisiting multiplication, division, addition and subtraction
and then taking each of our measurement topics and ensuring that children can
solve a range of problems involving them.
Science:
In science this coming week we will be watching pupils’ individual
presentations that they have been working hard on. I will be grading these
using the same rubric as I have been for previous science inquiry
presentations. They will be looking at the scientific knowledge, speaking and
presenting ability and finally their self direction on this task.
German:
Liebe Eltern der Chamäleon-Klasse,
in dieser Woche haben die Schüler Rechtschreibstrategien , doppelte
Mitlaute sowie die Satzglieder Subjekt und Prädikat wiederholt. Zudem haben sie
eine Lesespurgeschichte gelöst.
Am Mittwoch, den 1. März, schreiben wir das nächste Lernwörterdiktat.
Die Lernwörter dazu finden Sie im Anhang.
Ich wünsche Ihnen ein erholsames Wochenende!
Agnes Fojcik
Have a wonderful weekend.
Sincerely,
Mario Civico and the entire Chameleon team.
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