Announcements

Conferences forms are in the Friday folder this week. Please try to return these as soon as possible so I can begin scheduling. Thank you!

Literacy Night: Bookapalooza 2017!

Bookapalooza 2017 is Thursday, February 9 from 6- 8 pm. We’ll have cheap books, good food and fun! We’ve planned a kids’ poetry jam, a used book sale, book-themed raffle baskets created by our own PKE teachers, cool guest readers, pizza $1/slice, and more.

We are currently collecting children’s books, DVDs, and magazines for the Used Book Fair. If you have donations, please bring them to the Paxton Keeley office.

Watch for more information in the coming weeks. If you have questions or would like to volunteer for Bookapalooza, contact Jill Varns at jvarns@cpsk12.org

We’ll see you there!

In the Classroom

In math this week, we met a new friend named Antonio. We knew that Antonio was 4 feet tall, but he
wanted to find out how tall and wide other objects were in his city. Students were asked to find the measurements of these things without using a ruler. It was very interesting to see the different strategies they used! We related this to multiplication by making observations such as, "That building is 8 times as tall as Antonio, so it is 8 X 4 or 32 feet tall."

We also practicing skip counting by making cube trains and measuring strips for various factors. We used the strips to compare different factors and analyze the relationships. For example, the 6 strip is double the length of the 3 strip.

In writing this week, students were busy drafting their expert books. Most students completed a rough draft of the first few chapters, including the introduction. We will continue to draft next week, as well as start researching to fill in any gaps in our sections.

In Geography this week, students explore maps. We used the maps that were brought in on Tuesday to do a gallery walk. While we were exploring, we created a padlet to keep track of our noticings and observations.