We had a wonderful time at the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain performance. Mrs. Ryan shared the following links with the staff, if you would like to take a peek at their wide range in style!
Maps!
This week we continued our work with maps. We learned how to find coordinates on a grid, first by starting with a life size grid:
When we started talking about map grids,
Sam exclaimed "You need to know coordinates for Battleship!!"
A few other children knew just the boardgame game he was referring to:
After practicing on the life size grid, we worked with maps of Michigan, to locate cities within our own state. The students worked in partnerships to find the cities on the map index, which lists the coordinates. They located the following cities using the map grid:
Lansing, Detroit, Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Chelsea, Mackinac Island, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo
Some students noticed that the larger/major cities were written in capitals and/or bold face, while smaller cities like Chelsea were written in smaller text.
*The students each brought home a Michigan map and these are to keep at home. Ask your child to demonstrate how to look up cities and find them on the map!
Classroom Maps with map keys
Many students used mathematical skills and tools such as pattern block templates and straight edges, when creating their maps:
Money!
This week in math we worked on making change, and counting up as a strategy for finding how much change is due. For example: If I buy something that costs 60 cents, and I pay $1.00, the cashier may count my change back to me in dimes, starting from 60 cents and jumping up to $1.00 : "70 cents, 80 cents, 90 cents, one dollar" which would be 4 dimes in change, or 40 cents. We have also been working on dollars and cents notation. Ex. 100 cents = $1.00
On Friday the students played "Dollar Rummy", where they needed to make pairs of amounts of change that added up to $1.00 (compliments of 100).
Please find the Family Letter for Unit 4 in your child's homework folder, which we will be beginning next week!
More Rocks from home!
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