Hello everyone,
Just a reminder that conferences are next week. If your child receives Direct GTD Resource services (Grades 3-5) in Reading/Language Arts and/or Math, I will be coming to the conference that you have scheduled with our child's classroom teacher. If I have overlapping conferences, and for some reason I do not meet with you, I will be in touch to discuss your child's progress.
Updates
5th Grade Math
Students working on 6th Grade CCSS in Math have been working on their Summative Assessment for the skills learned in Unit 1 (operations with fractions and decimals). Our next unit will cover Ratios and Proportions
5th Grade Language Arts
Students have read up on the background of Edgar Allan Poe. They have begun reading and discussing the classic tale "The Tell Tale Heart". We have been discussing the use of various literary elements (repetition, simile, etc.). The next story we will be reading is "The Fall of the House of Usher"
4th Grade Math
Students in Packer Math for 4th grade have been working on measurement and averages and finding the measurements of "The Average 4th Grader". This is an introduction to data collection, averages, and measurement and the students will apply these skills on their own in a data collection project in the near future.
4th Grade Reading
4th Grade Packer Reading students have read the classic tale "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves". We are using our analytical skills and summarizing the important parts of the story into storyboards with which we are then going to create iMovies. The students are using their D97 Google accounts to work on their drawings which will then save as jpegs and import into iMovie on Mr. Packer's MacBook and iPad.
3rd Grade Math
3rd Grade Math students have been practicing their estimating and rounding skills. They had the challenge of creating the longest piece of paper from a single piece of 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper, which we then estimated their lengths, and then measured their actual length.
2nd Grade Thinking Skills
We continued to work on our own to solve problems using manipulatives and "acting out" a problem in order to solve (i.e Bob had 6 apples, Mary had 12 apples. How many did Mary give to Bob so they had the same number). The important concept was EQUAL. We are now learning to solve problems by using pictures to help us.
1st Grade Thinking Skills
First Graders continue to go along with DOT on DOT's adventure at school and use higher level thinking skills to solve problems encountered in the scenarios DOT find's itself throughout the course of the first day of school.
Kindergarten Thinking Skills
Mr. Packer introduced himself to Kindergarten classes last week and worked with the kids on identifying the 5 ways that the brain gets information (the 5 senses). This week, we are working on POSITIONAL words and putting blocks in certain spatial relationship orders (ABOVE, BELOW, NEXT TO, etc.).
That's all for now. Hope to see you during conferences next week.
All my best,
Mr. Packer
