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AMERICA RECYCLES DAY

Each year on November 15, millions of people across the United States take part in America Recycles Day. The day raises awareness about recycling and the purchasing of recycled products.

How we recycle and reuse products are important. For example, one-use water bottles flood America’s waterways and landfills at a rate of 60 million per day. Reducing this number can be achieved with water filtration devices and using portable re-usable drinking bottles and cups.

Reduce waste by repurposing and reusing old items. One of the bests ways to do this is by shopping at secondhand stores. Not only does it prevent items from ending up in the landfill, but it also saves you money. The old adage “one person’s junk is another person’s treasure” holds true. From clothing and furnishings to kitchen items and replacement parts, these stores offer more than you might imagine. If you’ve never shopped this way, consider it.

One area where we excel at recycling is aluminum. In fact, the U.S. recycles about 65% of its aluminum. That’s more than any other recycled item.

• In America, 105,800 cans are recycled every minute.
• Your television can run for 3 hours from the energy saved by recycling one can.
• In 2019, an aluminum can was worth about 1.7 cents.
• The industry pays more than $1 billion annually for recycled cans.

Your waste management professions are a wealth of information regarding recycling. They’ll give you the hard facts and steer you in the right direction, too. The role of waste management goes far beyond garbage collection. In each community, they provide a variety of services and programs designed to protect and reduce the impact we have on our environment.

HOW TO OBSERVE #AmericaRecyclesDay

Recycle, buy recycled goods and help teach others the benefits of recycling and continue to do so each day! Use #AmericaRecyclesDay to post on social media.

AMERICA RECYCLES DAY HISTORY

The National Recycling Coalition created America Recycles Day was started in 1997. Each year, the President declares the day encouraging Americans to commit to recycling. Since 2009, this day has been a program of Keep America Beautiful. There are thousands of events that are held across the United States to raise awareness about the importance of recycling and offering personal pledges that can be signed, committing to recycling and buying products made from recycled materials.

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First Grade:

This week we started working on our persuasive writing paragraphs. I pulled the children last week and asked them the question, “do you think Pig Latin was an easy language to learn"? Most of the kids thought it was very easy and fun. On Monday I introduced the children to the Hamburger Paragraph model. 

This helps them set up their paragraph with the introduction, three supporting details, and the conclusion. We are taking this step by step. I am working with both groups. We came up with the introduction sentence and then the supporting details. I am writing this down on the doc cam. The children may use my example or they can personalize it. A  couple children took the option of personalizing their supporting details. That's very exciting, and shows that they feel comfortable with writing. It’s also fine for those who used my example. This is fairly new for them. We will continue to work on this next week.

Second Grade:

This week we discussed similes. A simile is when we compare two things using "like" or "as". I explained to them that authors regularly use similes to help readers create images in their minds, which makes writing more interesting to read. 

Together, we brainstormed a list of similes such as, as busy as a bee, or as cool as a cumber. The children then worked on  matching the correct simile and make- up their own simile worksheets.

 After we finished, the children took turns coming up to the doc camera to highlight the correct answer. They all love being the teacher for a moment!

Mrs. Herman mentioned to me how the children pointed out to her the different similes in a book she was reading. Win, Win!!











Third Grade: 

Due to the Veterans Day program on Monday, and a delayed school day on Tuesday, I didn't get a chance to see the kiddos. We will pick up where we left off next week. We will continue with our reading of Miss Tiggy-Winkle.

Fourth Grade:

This week we reviewed parts of speech using Sentence Analysis. The sentences go along with our unit, so they relate to what we have been studying. I reminded them that each sentence has two distinct parts: the subject and the predicate. I told them to ask, “who or what is doing or being the verb?" When they can answer that question, they have found the subject. The predicate is the other part of the sentence: the verb and everything that goes with (or modifies) it.

Nouns are easy for them to identify. Adjectives tell how many, what kind, or which one.  We also talked about a special adjective called an article. An article such as "a", "an", or "the" can be used before a noun in a sentence.  We then discussed how the linking verb such as "is" links the subject and the predicate together. Lastly, we discussed a compound subject. A compound subject has two nouns, such as "boys and girls" doing the verb, such as" reading".

We will continue with this next week.  

First Grade:

This week in math the children had to create bags of objects that weigh about the same. We took the three bags from our last lesson that did not weigh the same. I asked them "what if you have two bags, and one is heavier than the other?" "What could you do to make them weigh the same?" Most answered with the removal of objects from the heavier item.

I then asked them, “what if you have two bags, and one is lighter than the other?"" What could you do to make the objects weigh the same?" A couple of the children said add more to the lighter bag. A few also answered and agreed that you could take away from the heavier bag. I felt after our talk that the children had a clear understanding on what was expected from them. 

While walking around and observing, I noticed that some of the children were adding objects to their bags that were already the heaviest bag. We all had to revisit our earlier discussion, and I needed to explain again what they needed to do with their bags. 

I then walked around to each station helping them sort everything out. We will continue with this lesson next week.

Second Grade:

This week in math I read a fax to the children from Dru and Teller introducing tessellations. A tessellation is an arrangement of shapes closely fitted together, especially of polygons in a repeated pattern without gaps or overlapping. 

We began the lesson by talking about transformations. I asked the children what they thought a transformation may mean. Most if not all of the students got it right. I then showed them a Transformers commercial. They all laughed out loud, but then completely understood what transformation means. We then got into a discussion about how they love Transformers. I had to quickly redirect them, even though it was very entertaining:)

Third Grade:

 Today we continued working on our Mini Hundreds chart worksheet. They had to highlight numbers in different patterns using different colors. 






Once they were done with their charts they needed to go over their multiplication patterns with their partner to discuss if they noticed any regularity in how the pattern is growing. 








They also had to work on a big Hundreds Chart, a Zarraco's worksheet and an exit ticket to be able to move on. All of which needed to be checked off with me. A couple were goofing off and didn't understand the directions due to not listening. 

Fourth Grade:

This week in math we went over a Think Frame together. This will prepare the children for the Think Deeply worksheet. The question focused on the game Triple Play that they played last week. The children had to come up with the most points pairing three shapes together.  The shapes that were presented were two parallelograms, one square, one trapezoid and two rectangles. We brainstormed different ideas. One idea was a rectangle, a square, and a trapezoid. 

We then discussed how a trapezoid has only 1 pair of parallel sides and that a square and a rectangle have 2 parallel sides. One child chose  2 rectangles and one parallelogram. The thing with rectangles are they can be a parallelogram, but a parallelogram cannot be a rectangle because it does not have right angles.

They also chose a square and two parallelograms. Great match, but not enough points. We are trying to find the highest points. They then chose the correct three which were the square and two rectangles. Since a square can be a rectangle, it is best to pair it up with the two rectangles and score 5 points. The next day the children needed to put their thoughts down to explain the answer in the response part of                                                  their Think Deeply worksheet. 

I hope everyone has a great weekend!!