"A Touch of Whimsy" with Joan Miró

Miró Watercolor

Joan Miró was a Spanish artist who developed a very whimsical style back in the 1930’s. His work has been called funny, exciting, scary, imaginative, but never boring. Miró painted what was important to him, perhaps the way he would have liked things to be, not necessarily how they are in reality. Many of his paintings contain a story or scene disguised by abstract shapes and colors. Painting surrealistically gave Miró the opportunity to interpret, to think. Miró worked mostly in primary colors, abstract shapes, and in "2-dimensions" (with no shadows or depth to the form). Miró
used lines often as a way of showing flow and illusion.

Learning Targets

Here's what we're learning this week:

Writing: Students are taking a district writing assessment. They are practicing skills such as note taking, summarizing, and citing their sources while examining informational articles. 

Reading: We are reading informational text about forces and motion. Students are learning how to locate information using text features such as: captions, labels, sidebars, bolded print and titles. They are also locating details and using them to identify the main idea of the article.

Math: We are learning about how to find the area of a figure using different units (inches and centimeters).

Social Studies: Students are being introduced to maps skills and are learning to use a map key, compass rose, and scale to find cities in the US.

Character Trait for October: Responsibility- You are responsible when you make appropriate choices in everyday actions. How does your child show responsibility at school and at home?

Spelling: New spelling lists are in your student's backpack today! Spelling tests are given each Friday.

Thank you to Adrian and Aliyah's families for providing snacks this week!

Great News! EB recently received a technology grant and Chrome books have arrived for students to use! Students are learning how to log on and off, to properly care and handle the computers, and are practicing math skills they've learned in class.

What Did You Learn Today?

Here are the learning targets for this week. Your child has been learning these skills and you can ask them to explain what they've been studying.

Writing: Ask your student about the personal narrative he or she wrote in class. What did they write about? Can they tell you the beginning, middle and ending? Ask them if they used dialogue with quotation marks in their writing.

Reading: Encourage your student to tell you about Realistic Fiction. We've analyzed figurative language, point of view, illustrations, and the central message in the books, The Raft, and His Favorite Sweatshirt. 

Math: Can your student round to the nearest 10 and 100? Can they add and subtract multi-digit numbers within 1000 using at least two different strategies?

Social Studies: Ask your student about where we live (Hemisphere, Continent, Country, State, City, Neighborhood).

Character Trait for October: Responsibility- You are responsible when you make appropriate choices in everyday actions. How does your child show responsibility at school and at home?

Spelling: We recently had our first spelling test. Spelling lists will come home on Mondays and students will be tested on Fridays.

*Good news is that the IXL website is now working again. Students' usernames and passwords are located on a sticker in their homework folder. Please encourage them to practice for 10-15 minutes a day or to complete two skills. Please focus on rounding, place value, or adding and subtracting multi-digit numbers. Thank you!!!

Donated Snacks- Thank you Adil and Corbin's families for recently donating snacks!!!