I hope you enjoyed the long weekend and took some time to reflect on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with your students- I love those teachable moments when kids ask, "Why didn't we have school today?"
Here's This Week in Switzer:
Literature: UNI PDS pre-service teachers have assigned your student a novel to read- expect your student to have 15-20 minutes of reading work for this every night. We are also working on Non-fiction summarizing and traits of non-fiction texts.
DEAR- Students are logging their DEAR books, checking their Lexile goals, and working on book projects.
WIN- Mr. Switzer's WIN group is working hard with geometry- a very difficult topic in Algebra. Our CFA's this week deal with absolute value, and graphing on a number line.
D,D,D- We're reading the book, Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn. It's spooky- and great at suspense!
Math- We are moving into the world of integers, negative numbers, integer operations, and graphing. This is really fun stuff!
Social Studies- Our TIME magazine articles were due last week, and now we're working on Chapter 4 in our books.
Science- Students took a quiz last week over models and designs, and will start trying to figure out how certain models are built- and how to build a replica! Ask them about the Flood Stopper and Humdinger this week.
Writing- We are starting to look at how to do research effectively on the internet and how to gauge information as accurate and reliable. We'll continue writing about our research using great DONUT paragraphs- ask them what this means!
Have a great week and stay warm!
Matthew Switzer
6th grade teacher
Lincoln Elementary
6th grade teacher
Lincoln Elementary
