Update

We are off to a great start to the new year. The students continue to set goals that are important and appropriate for each individual.  There is much to cover this last half of the year. The Moon Unit is next.  The students have started observing the moon either in the evening or the early morning.  The students have also been learning cursive.  They have completed the letters a, b, and c.  They took their work home last week to share with their families.  The students have completed math Units 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6.  They are working on Unit 5. The students' goal is to have quick recall of multiplication facts for 6, 7, 8, and 9.  The students are using computer program IXL, flash cards and games to achieve this goal.  This is a challenging goal for the students. In math the students also have learned that polygons are shapes with straight sides that enclose a space and are classified according to the number of sides they have. They have also learned that squares, rectangles, parallelograms and trapezoids are special kinds of quadrilaterals.  Other vocabulary learned were pentagon and hexagon.  This week the students will also be making rotating designs.  This activity integrates art and math and provides the opportunity to discuss the geometry vocabulary of vertex, perimeter, angle and rotation.