Weekly Update & International Festival

International Festival:
The students did an outstanding job at the 2014 International Festival!  We were so proud of their hard work as we watched them perform on stage!  Their costumes were impressive, and we loved tasting the delicious foods from the many different countries!  Check out the slideshow below to enjoy some photos from the festive event. (Double click on the slideshow to view larger versions of the photos and download individual pictures.)




Mrs. Clippard, a parent of a Hill 3rd grader, took even more awesome photos from the event and posted them on a public Shutterfly account.  In her album, you will find TONS of great pics of the students including individual catwalk pictures and students reading their facts at the microphones.  Here is the link to her album: https://hillpto.shutterfly.com/pictures/404

Research Workshop:
All students finished their final country books last week.  This week we will grade the books using a rubric that the students actually used to assess themselves last week.  The books will come home at the end of this week or the beginning of next week for you to read.

Devon shows us the cover of his country book.

Brett is proud of his Germany book.

Gloria did a great job on her paragraph pages in her final book.

Math Workshop:
Last week we spent time looking closely at the relationship between addition and subtraction.  Using their prior knowledge of fact families, students were asked to rewrite addition problems as subtraction problems and vice versa.  We also spent more time specifically on subtraction.  Students practiced deciding when to "ungroup," which is essentially like "borrowing" in the traditional method of subtraction.

All-Star of the Week:
Audrey was our awesome All-Star last week.  We loved seeing the photos she chose to hang on our All-Star board and enjoyed listening to her tell a story about each one.  The class also loved seeing the items she brought in her sharing sack, especially the astronaut helmet you see in the photo below!  On her Lunch Buddy Day, Audrey was lucky enough to have both of her parents and her grandma join her in the cafeteria!