Wood's Wonderful World

Specials - Art

Dates

11/6 - No School

11/11 - Veteran's Day Assembly

11/23-11/27 Thanksgiving Break

12/17 - Winter Wonderland of Reading

• Manatees: Students will start a new unit on multiplying 2-digit by 2-digit numbers.

• Cranes: The Cranes will continue their unit focused on fluently multiplying multi-digit whole numbers but to 3 digit by 2 digit numbers with a focus on using standard algorithm. Test Thursday or Friday.

• Monkeys: The Monkeys will continue working on division up to three digits with one digit divisors. They will likely take their test on Friday.

Waffles -This group will focus on reading and discussing texts from the Jr. Great Books curriculum, as well as analyzing short passages and using text evidence to make inferences.

Students have officially finished their first essay! There were struggles, there were tears, there were broken lightbulbs (Evelyn ), and there were some very happy kids who were incredibly proud of themselves. And rightfully so! Yay!

Next week, we're going to pull back on the support just a little bit to continue pushing them outside their comfort zones. They'll begin another opinion essay, this time tackling the question of whether homes should be built near fault lines. I'm tying this one into science, so they'll get to put their scientific thinking to work alongside their writing skills. More productive struggle ahead! 😊

*****Please do not help your child with writing! I need to see what they are capable of doing!

We will continue our focus on Earth Science! Next week, we’ll continue learning about tectonic plates and explore how they shape our planet. We are also bringing writing into science. Students will work on reading a short passage to answer a question using the TIDE strategy.

THE STORY OF HOW KAREN BECAME KAREN:

(This story starts when Karen is still a normal human girl, I know, AMAZING) Karen was the first volunteer for that one ad where the girl who fakes her death to hear the good things people say about her. They forgot that Karen needed to come out. Though, it is kinda Karen’s fault because she didn’t get out in time and they closed the coffin. So anyway, Karen died and was buried at a real funeral. That was 1,000 years ago. (They have tried to do that ad with all Karen’s other cousins, they didn’t do any better and Karen’s cousins were buried with Karen. The person who fakes their death was originally a child.) At one funeral, Karen and her cousins came back from the dead.

The people at the funeral said, “They’re small, let’s send them to Target!” So Karen and company were sent to Target and there Karen was found by our amazing teacher, Mrs. Wood! You may be wondering how Karen is a month old but is 1,000 years old. We count how old she is by the day she came out of her grave.

P.S. Parents, if your child or you have any questions about Karen that you want answered, send them to Mrs. Wood and I will do a RAIDS response to them.

P.P.S. I will do one question a week so if your question is not answered, do not be mad, I’m picking randomly.

"FACTS. DUNH DUNH DUHHHHH!!!!!!"

"Today was a weird day for me because all I wanted to do was read to finish my book!"

"I want to be a scientist so I can study volcanoes so I can learn how they make people go bleh."

"I also want to study space because people have no air there and they also go bleh!"

Ella V - "What sound does a bunny make?"

Max - "Ribbit!" Nope! Not even close...

Greta - "This pencil is really sharp!" Almost stabs Kinsley in the eye to show everyone.

Evelyn - "Kinsley forgot her water bottle and has just been thirsting for life."

Greta - "I wonder what would happen if you put a spaghetti noodle in a black hole because it would get stretched and you'd infinite spaghetti noodles. It'd be a whole plate of spaghetti in one noodle!"

Adi - "Wait, that (conclusion sentence) was really powerful!"