Collins & Co. Room 204
Week Twelve Update
Welcome!
Hi Parents,
~ Brrrrrr..... it's getting cold outside! Please remember to send your students with coats, hats, and gloves. They will be going outside for Recess on most days between now and Winter Break!
~ It was a short and busy busy week! See what we've been up to below!
~ Our next Scholastic Book Order is due next Friday. The blue box below is a link to the Scholastic website. You can place your orders either online or by bringing in your order form and a check to school.
Have a great weekend!
Ms. Collins
Math
Who thought math could be so fun! Connecting fractions to money and pizza, you can't go wrong. This week we put our great skills about least common denominators, equivalent fractions and multiples to work to help us simplify fractions, change improper fractions to mixed numbers, and then to decimals!
Put your mathematicians to the test and ask them how to say decimals as if they were "precocious"!
We will be taking our Chapter 3 test next week to get it out of the way before Thanksgiving Break!
Find more information on our classroom website by clicking the "Math in Focus" link.
Reading Workshop
This is one of my new favorite books!!
Writing Workshop
We continued to focus on creating well written paragraphs. We used our new tricks to continue working on introductions to our personal narratives.
Students are also working hard to organize their stories before they start typing them up. They made outlines and blocked out their lists into "main ideas" to get a sense of where and when to start new paragraphs, and when to start wrapping it up!
By Friday, we were ready to put our good paragraphing skills to work and write very interesting and loaded paragraphs about the turkeys that were decorated at home. The turkeys and paragraphs will be on display in the hallway next week to see if Greenbriar can match up the turkeys with the appropriate paragraph.
Science
In class we read about the Energy Pyramid and talked about how each level of consumer and the producers play an important role. They then applied their knowledge by creating a diagram of the pyramid in Google Docs.
Game Day!
Ask your Student about:
- Game Day!
- Google Docs
- Our read aloud, Ungifted
- "Today in History"
- Their favorite quote of the day
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award
Illinois Children's Choice Award
Things to come:
- Friday, November 21st: End of the trimester
- November 24-28: No School- Thanksgiving Break
Collins & Co.
Greenbriar Elementary School
Email: ecollins@northbrook28.net
Website: http://fs.greenbriar28.net/~elisabethcollins/Ms._Collins_Class_Webpage/Welcome_to_Collins_%26_Co..html
Location: 1225 Greenbriar Lane, Northbrook, IL, United States
Phone: 847-504-3711