These Past 2 Cycles we learned.
- How to treat books with care
- How to find books that are the right level for us to read.
- How to set goals for our reading year.
- What Writers do, and how they work effectively
- How to use our Writer’s notebooks effectively.
- The type of Writer I am right now, and what type of writer I want to be by the end of the year.
- Simple Past Tense, regular verbs
- That equal groups are used in multiplication
- To relate the picture model to multiplication questions
- To relate the array model to multiplication questions
- How to interpret factors in a multiplication question.
- How to understand the concept of the unknown in division questions.
- How to understand the unknown in an array model.
- What fossils are
- How to understand what dinosaurs looked like.
- How fast a dinosaur was, and compare that to ourselves
- How animals inherit traits from their parents.
- What future animals may look like.
We have not started our Social Studies Unit yet.
Next Cycle we will learn.
- How to find the best ways to share books
- Find people to effectively share books with
- What a proper Writer’s Notebook entry looks like
- How to effectively use a writing partner
- How to generate ideas for a story.
- Simple Past Tense, irregular verbs
- The commutative property of factors in a multiplication sentence.
- How to skip count using arrays.
- How to find related multiplication facts
- Modeling division questions in multiplication using unknown factors.
- About natural and artificial selection of traits
- About behavioral traits, and learned traits.
We have not started our Social Studies Unit yet.
Quote of the Cycle
Mr. Chad: Love your classmates, you are stuck with them all year!
In class we are learning from “Stone Fox” If your child does not have access to this book please prepare one, or contact your Homeroom teacher.
A Review from the Parent Student Handbook:
Mobile Device Policy
Students are not allowed to use mobile phones, smartphones, smartwatches, MP3/4 players, portable CD players, radios, and other electronic devices on the BIBA campus unless permission is granted by the teacher for the use of such items for a specific purpose. Students in possession of these items during the school day, without permission, will have these items confiscated.
Confiscated items will be returned at the end of the school day. Parents may be requested to come to the school to collect confiscated items should the student commit repeated offenses and not respond to warnings by the school. Mobile phone and camera functions are not to be used, i.e. picture-taking, recording, etc. without the express permission of the classroom teacher or administration at any point on the school grounds.
Mr. Chad's class Blog 