Mrs. Garlow's Classroom Blog

Research Books for Writing

Students have been working on analyzing text structures to understand what they are reading and to grasp main ideas.  Learning this skill helps to support students when they are reading their research books and taking notes based on their understanding. 

It is strongly encouraged that your child has books based on their topic of interest to support their research.  A good place to start is at the Aurora Public Library.  If you have not already done so, please visit the public library with your child so they may sign out books to help them.

Math

This past week we wrapped up our learning about two-dimensional geometry and angles.  The photos below captures some of the students engaged in the learning.

Students constructing their understanding of shape and angle 

through the context of a math problem presented.

A student's hypothesis made visible on the shape of the 

"danger zone" or blind spot around a boat.

Students playing online math games.

Students working together to solve a math problem.

Math games and puzzles.

We will be moving onto Transformational Geometry this week.  Students will learn how to identify and describe the locations and movements of shapes and objects such as flips, slides and turns as reflections, translations, and rotations (e.g., a slide to the right is a translation; a turn is a rotation.  A math guide will go home later this week to help prepare students for the test after March Break on Fractions, 2D Geometry, Angles, and Transformational Geometry.  Please keep an eye out for it.