This week in Mrs. Zimmer’s Class!

*It’s been a couple crazy weeks with a lot of testing, and we are not quite done yet! Students will be taking the STAR Math test next week 2 / 7 / 17. 

In Math we are continuing to work on solving/creating story problems with unknown partners and totals.  We will begin to start working on problems with 3 addends towards the end of the week.  Students will be using a strategy to solve story problems by finding partners that make a 10-group. 

Example: 4 + 3 + 7 =

Students will see that 3+7 make a 10, and then add 4 to 10 to make 14.

On Friday, we will be celebrating the 100^th day of school!!! We will be doing a math related activity that day to celebrate! J

In Science, we are talking about properties of solids and liquids.  Last week, we did an activity to describe the properties of solids, so this week we will be doing the same for liquids.  Students will be observing laundry detergent, fabric softener, colored water, cooking oil, and hand soap in their groups and will try use words to describe them.  During our whole group discussion, I will introduce properties of liquids such as transparent, viscous, bubbly, translucent, and foamy to describe the liquids they are observing.  Towards the end of the week, we will discuss how matter can change to different states, and examine what happens when we mix solids and liquids.

In Health, we will be focusing on dental hygiene because February is Dental Hygiene month! We will read books and do interactive notebook activities to identify daily dental hygiene practices.