December 12, 2015
Dear Families,
We have been working hard in Room 21. The weather has been a challenge for these active kids but, the work we’ve been doing has been amazing.
We have created beautiful designs based on snowflakes, using Rotational Symmetry. We have compared two texts about snowflake scientists. We have been reading about the Statue of Liberty in our 3rd grade anthology and taken a virtual tour of Lady Liberty. In math class we are finding the perimeter and area of polygons.
I’m sending home some of the typical work we do in math and literacy. Please spend some time with your student reviewing the work they are doing. We’ve gone over all of it as a group or one to one. Ask them how to figure out the area of a quadrilateral OR the perimeter of an irregular shape.
We’ve also been talking about Peace, learning how to say the word in 28 languages! Each student is an expert on one way to say “Peace”. They can find the country on a map and express their own ideas about peace in our “peace quotes”. Look for our work to decorate our hallway next week.
Thank you for sharing your kids with me,
Valerie McKenzie
