High Five Friday!!!

NATIONAL PARENTS AS TEACHERS DAY

National Parents as Teachers Day on November 8th encourages Parent Teachers Organizations and parents to join forces to support children in their educational goals.

Parents as Teachers Organizations offer educational services to parents across the country.  These affiliates give all parents of young children support, and it also provides information so all children learn, grow and develop to realize their full potential.

The concept for Parents as Teachers developed in the 1970s in Missouri. There, educators noted that children were beginning kindergarten with varying levels of school readiness. Research showed that greater parent involvement is a critical link in the child’s development of learning skills, including reading and writing.

The day provides tools, resources, and support to parents to better guide them and their children. 

HOW TO OBSERVE #ParentsAsTeachersDay

Take some time to teach your children something new. Join a local organization to help improve education in your community. Use #ParentsAsTeachersDay to post on social media.

Educators, visit the National Day Calendar® classroom to find projects, inspiration and ways to Celebrate Every Day with your students.

NATIONAL PARENTS AS TEACHERS DAY HISTORY

The Parents as Teachers National Center in St. Louis, Missouri declared the first Parents as Teachers Day in 2001. They offered supporting community events spreading awareness of early childhood programs.

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First Grade:

We finished up with our connections that we found outside. We then took our favorite connection and wrote it in Pig Latin. The children were then able to share their work with the class. I then asked the children if they thought Pig Latin was easy? Most of the class said yes, it is very easy. We are then going to take our opinions and turn it into a persuasive writing paper using the Hamburger Model. I showed the children a couple short videos on how to write a persuasive paper. Since this was such a short                                                                    week we will start the paper Monday.                                                                 

Second Grade:

This week we continued our lesson on common and proper nouns. We made a t-chart and labeled it with "proper" on one side and "common" on the other. We then took the nouns from our sentence last week and put them into the

correct categories. We then talked about how authors revise their work to make their writing more interesting. I read them the poem The Quarrelsome Kittens. I explained to them that poetry is known for its use of adjectives and strong word choices. I then partnered the children up and they had to highlight the descriptive and/or interesting words. We then shared our interesting word and then noted the common word. For example, quarrel instead of fight, seized instead of grabbed and crept instead of walked. We discussed how these word choices improve the poem. We will continue where we left off next week.

Third Grade:

                                                    
We finished up our presentations this week.  We briefly went back over the author Beatrix Potter and talked about her life. Beatrix Potter had many childhood interactions with nature and animals, she also had a passion for drawing and had a lively imagination. 




We then read the story The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle. I started off reading, then the children took turns. They are great readers and very expressive. 

Next week we will start a reading analyzer.

Fourth Grade: 

A couple girls had to finish up their creative station. While they were busy working we took turns reading Girls Think of Everything.

The girls really enjoy reading from this book. We read about how the first chocolate chip cookie was invented. We also read about a how a woman and her mother invented the Snugli to comfort babies. We then jumped right into sharing our favorite creative station invention. One girl presented the Toilet Buddy which helps people find the nearest toilet. Another creative invention was The Phone that could paint. All in all, this was very enjoyable for the girls. We are moving on next week to bigger and better things.

First Grade:
This week in math I read a fax From Imi and Zani. They want the children to measure an object  that everyone in the US would use. We came to the conclusion that everyone has pennies, and that they would be great to work with. They needed to count out 50 pennies and place them in a bag. 

We talked about the best way to count out 50 objects, and that  would be to count by 2's untill you get to ten and then make piles of ten. Doing it this way helps so they don't lose track. They were then given two more bags per station of objects that they needed to count 50 of. We then switched stations and counted the objects over to ensure there were 50. A couple children found some mistakes.

 It was usually because an object was pushed aside or dropped on the floor. The children then had to use the terms heaviest and lightest to compare the weights of the bags using the hanger balance scale. They then had a worksheet to do to compare the different weights of the objects.



 I sent home a baggie that asked them to fill it up with with objects that were a little less than 50 pennies or a little more than 50 pennies. This is due back November 13.







Second Grade:

We briefly talked about our Think Frame from last week. If you remember, the children had to find two triangles and put them together to make a rectangle, trace it and find lines of symmetry. This week we took what we talked about and added our thoughts to a Think Deeply. This is a big step to be able towrite like a mathematician. We are still taking it step by step, but they are getting better at writing their thoughts down. We then did a Think Beyond Card where they learned how to use a protractor.  We watched a short video and then got started measuring the angles or our triangles. I talked to them about how all the angles should add up to be 180 degrees. This was very interesting since most were not familiar with a protractor and usually don't start using one until 4th grade.

Third Graders:

We finished going over our Check-Up. We went over all the questions and discussed the answers. I will be throwing out questions throughout the next week or so to continue to test their knowledge. We moved on to the next lesson using a mini hundreds chart. The children worked with a partner to identify the multiplication patterns on the chart. They needed to highlight numbers in different patterns using color. The first one we did together. They needed to find the 2s multiplication table. Some of the kids wanted to find numbers that contained 2 in it. I explained to them that they were actually counting by twos. We then looked at the pattern and if they noticed any regularity in how the pattern is growing. 

Fourth Grade:

We went over Three of These Things Belong Together as a class. I had one student at the doc cam jotting down the correct answers. The next day we watched a short video on the different characteristics of our quadrilaterals to just clarify what they already know. We then jumped into a game called Triple Play.


The students were paired up and had to compare and contrast the different quadrilaterals. They needed to try and put three cards together based on similar properties. They had a game board to keep track of their points. The first person to 100 points wins. Some were still confused about how to pair certain ones up to gain more points so we discussed different strategies.  

Have a fun weekend!