Dear Families,
Last week seemed to be the week of the flu, as we were
missing at least 2 students every day. I
had my own battle with the flu early in the week, but managed to recover in
time to begin my 2 weeks of full time teaching on Wednesday. The kids and I had a lot of fun as we
continued our study into magazines, and began learning about geometry, rocks
and Non-Fiction books.
This week we will have the PASS writing test on Tuesday and
Wednesday morning. Mr. Hass and I are
confident all the students will do very well as they are all fantastic
writers. We worked on prompt writing for
about a week to help prepare the class for the type of writing expected on the
PASS test. All the students did very
well and if they take their time and do their best they will all be successful.
While I was out sick at the beginning of the week Mr. Hass
worked with the class to explore magazines.
We noticed lots of great things about magazines including: table of
contents, facts, graphs, comics, advertisements, and lots of articles. We have decided to take our interest in
magazines and create our own. The class
had a chance to divide up based on their interests and begin thinking about
what types of articles their magazine would include. This week we will have the chrome books in
the room in the morning so we can research our articles and begin composing
them.
The class and I began our investigation into rocks on Thursday
of last week. Their enthusiasm is
infectious. To help get our
investigation off on the right foot we had Ed Emmer come and speak to us on
Friday. He is Richland Two’s science
coordinator and a geologist by trade. He
brought in lots of rock samples for the kids to investigate and answered all of
their many questions. We had a lot of
fun learning how different rocks are formed and want to give a sincere thank
you to Mr. Emmer for coming in and spending the afternoon with us.
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| Mr. Emmer answering our questions about rocks. |
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| A sample metamorphic rock Mr. Emmer brought in for us to investigate. |
To help with our investigation into rocks and minerals I am
going to ask each student to bring in 2 samples of dirt from around the
house. This could be potting soil from
plants, sand from the driveway, or just regular old dirt that is around your
house. This will help us to identify the
many different soils around us in South Carolina.
I am really excited to continue my full time teaching this
week with the class. If you have any
questions or there is anything I can help you with please feel free to email me
at cqtiscornia@gmail.com
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