We're BACK! January 10-January 14

Hello everyone,

Happy New Year and happy return to Packer's Post.

Speaking of Packers, looking forward to the big game next week.

Here's what's been going on in the world of GTD Services at Irving since break.

2nd Grade Reading
Students have continued reading in "Half Magic". We will be finishing up the book this week, continuing to answer discussion questions, and will have a post reading activity to complete.

2nd Grade Math
Students have been exploring the world of 3-dimensional objects. We talked about the similarities in the structure of a cube and rectangular prism (introducing the terms face, edge, and vertices). We have also begun to explore volume by find the the volume of a cube we constructed out of Geoshapes

3rd Grade Math
Students have been working with fractions and the relations between decimals, fractions, and percents. Unfortunately with our schedule, I will not see these students until the end of the month (MLK day and Institute Day)

3rd Grade Reading
Students will participate in a reading group based on their CogAT scores of last year and their current MAP scores (90 percentile and above). We will begin by reading the novel "Dear Mr. Henshaw" by Beverly Cleary and we will work on inferencing skills, main idea, and formal letters.

4th Grade Math
Students have been working on exponents, roots, and powers of 10

5th Grade Math
Students are finishing up in Unit 4 (Operations with fractions, percents, and percent circles). We will be taking the Unit 4 test this week and begin Unit 5. 5th grade students participating in the the Math Olympiad have just taken the 3rd of the the 5 tests.

That's all for now. Stay warm.

All my best,
Mr. Packer