Weekly Update-January 25th

This week was bittersweet as we said goodbye to our wonderful teacher assistant, Ms. Meyer.

-Alites

Good bye

By Trevor and Daniel

Our beloved teacher aide, Ms Meyer, left our class to work as a teacher in the Bronx. She was a great help to our class and she will be go wonderful as a 4^th grade teacher. We miss her! She was a great teacher.



Perspective

By Rebecca, Emilie, Michael

This week you may have noticed that your child’s reading log looks different. Don’t worry, the teachers have come up with a new way to help your child understand their book on a whole new level. It’s called reading goals. Each week we will have a new reading goal. The reading goal for this week is perspective. Your child is assigned to write a journal entry from the perspective of one of the characters from their own book. Next week we will have a different reading goal. We will keep you posted.

Math

By Adam, Yunseo, and Sanjyot.

This week in math we learned about comparing and ordering fractions. When you compare fractions you find a common denominator.  When you order fractions you put them in order from least to greatest. We played a card game where you have to get the greatest fraction and you can swap cards but only once. That is what we learned in math this week!

Made in…

By Jared, Austin and PJ

Have you ever wondered where all of your stuff comes from? We did a project where we had to find the country items in our house were imported from.  Did you know that our biggest trading partner is not China?  In fact, our biggest trading partners are Canada and Latin America.  We found out that flour PJ uses at home was imported from Australia. The kiwis Rachel has in her kitchen were imported from Italy.

Stock Market

By Caitlin, Kyra, and Steven

Our new topic in social studies is the Stock Market. Our teachers explained how the stock market and shares works. The teachers gave us our own stock to follow for a week. Some examples are, Gap, Apple, and AOL. We went on a website called Wally’s Stock Ticker and looked up our company. We found out how much a share is worth and how the trading price fluctuates during the day. 

Phil Bildner

By Brian, Sakina, and Chris

This Thursday, Phil Bildner came to visit 5^th grade. He is an author, and often writes about sports. He is really funny and showed us some errors that he has spotted through the years like a STOP sign that was spelled “SOTP”! He taught us that our first draft of a story can not be our last draft. He showed us his newest book that he is working on. It is called Soccer Fence. He also told us that he used to go to our school- Cantiague! It was an amazing time!