Friday, February 3, 2012

Week 22

First Friday was so fun! We had a fantastic experience with Jeremy and Lily, two instructors from the Brooklyn Yoga School. Our thanks to Ms. Rao who made this session happen!
 If you are interested in taking classes, please check out the website, BrooklynYogaSchool.com.

Here's what to expect for next week: 
  • Saturday School begins this weekend. We have Mrs. Freader, a teacher from our sister school, PS 107, as our test prep instructor. 
  • This will be the last week of Fantasy book club. Our students are making progress not just reading for a literal recall of the story, but interpreting characters and lessons to be learned through these stories. 
  • Our next reading unit will focus solely at Interpretation and we will look at a variety of texts, including poems and songs. This unit will challenge students to look at texts and see lessons and messages that apply to our own experience. We will also look at the universality of these themes as we examine how multiple texts convey similar messages. 
  • We began unit 6 in math. This unit will center on long division strategies. It is important to keep working with multiplication facts including extended facts, which will be very helpful when we study the partial quotients method. The unit five math test was sent home on Thursday. Please review and sign the test so that it can be returned by Monday.
  • The answer to our poll question, 83 * 28 is about... 2400. Good work to all the voters! Check out our new question!
Thank you and have a wonderful weekend!