Welcome to Team Van Hoesen! This year has already proven to be pretty wonderful. Your children have everything to do with that and I feel extremely fortunate to be their teacher. Here you will find mostly pictures of the goings-on in our classroom. I'm going to try to put most of the content area updates right in Powerschool. Next week I will send Powerschool Passwords and User Names for parents home with the students. There are no grades posted yet, just information about what we've been doing in language arts, science, social studies, and math.
Speaking of math, ask your child about the cool Inspirational Math we've been starting our year with. It truly does inspire the mind. Today we learned all about Pascal's triangle and the patterns therein. We are building a tight-knit writerly community already with a lot of fluency building and idea generation. The writer's notebooks coming in have been just wonderful. In Social Studies we've started our first unit which is a geographical overview of the United States. Soon we will begin to tell the story of the birth of our country--full of drama and intrigue! Our first Science unit is about objects in the sky, and we've started by taking a look at how seasons are controlled by the tilt of the earth and its position relative to the sun. Through it all we read and write and get to know each other just a little better every day. Enjoy!
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