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What a week of exploration and fun we have had in the Gamma room! Our week included the perfect combination of working individually and with others to reach our learning goals. Our Gamma community is really coming together! Math We reviewed rounding and place value with an “Amazing Math Race.” Then we applied our rounding skills to estimating answers to real life math problems. ELA We learned about cause and effect relationships and applied them in reading about the very first vikings. Our book clubs are going strong and the students seem to be enjoying their novels. Theme We learned […]

Heil og sæl (to your health and happiness) dear Gamma families! What a lot of learning we squeezed into this short week. Even as we’re learning about reading, math, writing, and the Vikings, the Gammas are gaining valuable knowledge about compromise and working in teams–from deciding who will read first during book club to pitching in to clean up our classroom after building Viking longhouses together–everyone is a valuable member of our little community! Math We used our knowledge of place value to help us round numbers. ELA We continued studying character traits, conflict, and reaction/resolution to conflict by reading

Góðan dag, Gammas! We are getting more and more comfortable with our classmates, routines, and expectations. We are building our Gamma community of learners where everyone feels safe and ready to take learning risks. This week we finalized and signed our Gamma Agreements and are ready to set sail for adventures in learning and friendship! Math We continued our study of place value in standard, word, and expanded form and started comparing and ordering numbers. Gamma 2’s also learned that each digit’s value is 10X more or less than its next door neighbor. ELA In reading we are still learning

We are off to a great start! We spent much of our time this first week getting to know each other, our space, and our new routine. We focused on community building and by midweek we were splitting into math and reading groups. Math We worked on place value with notetaking and games. ELA We began learning about character traits by reading books and looking for what characters say, do, think, and feel. Theme We just dipped our toes into Vikings by watching a video and discussing it. We listed interesting facts we learned and came up with questions we

General News We forgot to pick up your Q4 learning logs! Oops! Please bring those to school on Monday (Thank you!) The Gammas are busy working on POP and we hope to see as many of you as can make it next week for POP and Talent Show! Thank you to parent volunteers who are able to help out with our upcoming building transition! ELA Update This week we were focused on creating great informational writing pieces about all of our learning this semester for POP. This is where we really make “the invisible visible” for guests by writing about