Another Solid Week

Greetings,
First of all, I want to let you know that I enjoyed meeting with you all on Tuesday evening. I felt like I sped through a lot of it, so please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions you might have. It has been a busy week and the kids have had a lot of fun today with getting a casual day AND getting to vote for Orange and Black captains for the first time. Here are some more highlights from the week:

MATH
We have spent the last week working on place value. This has included focusing on using different ways to write numbers (expanded form, standard form, word form), identifying places, identifying values, comparing numbers, and ordering numbers. The students really seemed to enjoy the place value game they played using dry erase boards, dry erase markers, and nine-sided dice. I really feel that this did a wonderful job reinforcing the skills we have been focusing on.

SCIENCE
We began our prep work for our terrarium and aquarium projects. The kids did an excellent job marking and cutting their bottles. We will start working on building our terrariums next week. We also finished up our paper airplane experiments. Ms. Earhart's students did their experiments in the gym and my homeroom did it in Frist Hall. I loved walking around and hearing all of the great "science speak" coming from the kids. I am eager to design another inquiry project that we can do later in the quarter.

Thanks again for all that you do and have a wonderful weekend.