News for 12/4

What a week! We had some warm weather, cold weather, and then ended with a light dusting of snow! It's been a great week!

Announcement: 
Please join us for our Fall Open House on December 12th from 3-4pm. This is a student-led fall showcase for all current TAG students. Please bring your student with you when you come. They will be your tour guide and will be sharing their work with you. This is a come and go event. We hope to see you there!

Math:

3rd Grade- 

Third grade has completed their division unit this week. We explored a variety of division strategies and put them into practice. We also began our unit on Data Analysis and will be exploring a variety of graphs and ways to collect and interpret data.

4th Grade-

Fourth graders have had a great week wrapping up our learning about fractions. Students have had the opportunity to show off their knowledge by completing a menu project.  They were given a menu of activities, and chose a combination of small projects and math problems to add up to 100.  They've been hard at work on them all week, in between visits to the robolab.  Projects are due on Monday, 12/11/17.  I can't wait to see their showcases of learning!

5th Grade-

Fifth graders spent the week learning about finding percents, parts of a whole and whole amounts when given different variables.  We started the week just giving the problems a try, but they quickly figured out we needed a formula!  We learned all about setting up ratios as a proportional relationship, and were able to solve lots of problems using the formula soon after.  We ended the week by applying our learning about proportions to problems about eating at a restaurant using a coupon and paying tax, and a pizza delivery fee increase.  We've had a great week of learning! 

ELA Enrichment & ISP:

1st Grade- 

First graders started the week with some Math practice.  We played a dice game where we added the numbers we rolled, then completed a snowman color by number with our answers.  We read the book The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle and learned some fun things about crickets!  We wrote about our learning, labeled the parts of a cricket and made a puzzle from a cricket picture.  It's been a busy, but fun, week!  

2nd Grade-

We have been building, building, building this week! Several students have completed their room projects and are excited to share them in January. We were also super excited to have some surprise visitors outside our window on Wednesday. We had the pleasure of taking a moment to observe 4 Blue Jays in the tree outside. There was conversation about how they looked, what they were doing, and why they might have all been there at once. We snapped a somewhat fuzzy picture of one of them before they headed off. It is always fun to be able to learn from the world around us!

3rd Grade-

We are eagerly awaiting our holiday cards from the exchange and are ready to study where they have come from. In the meantime, students have been hard at work building their houses to meet the goal of displaying them in January at STEAM night!

4th Grade-

In fourth grade, we have been busy building houses. Many students are almost done and will be ready to work on some technological aspects to our projects. They are looking forward to showing off their work in January!

5th Grade-

Fifth grade is hard at work finalizing the planning for their model sets and scripts. We worked on character identification and began developing their role in our scripts.

Have a great weekend and see you next week!

Important Dates:

12/12    6:15 Singing Stars Caroling

12/13    8:00 3rd Grade December Around the World               performance for families
12/21    Sweater Spirit Day and class holiday parties
12/25-1/8 Winter Break
1/9      Students back to school