Beta

This week was all about wrapping things up! Here are some of the highlights. Three of our book club groups finished their books!   Our Beta writers shared their nonfiction books with one another! We earned so much from one another.   Check out our Out of this World planet projects! Well done everyone! *** Want to see more pictures, videos and more details about each day? Don’t forget to check us out on Instagram! *** @ Beta_class

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group powered through their End of Year Assessment!! These Betas have worked so hard this year – we’re spending our last days together planning an epic space trip! So far this week we’ve reviewed qualifications and hired a team of astronauts and specialists for the mission, carefully planned a training schedule for them, and helped another team figure out which supplies they can afford to purchase for their trip. Needless to say, it’s been a busy week. We’re also making time for some targeted review of yearlong skills to ensure our math minds are as

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group finished off their graphing unit and shone so bright on their posttest!! We were sure to devote some time to games and student-led equation challenges (aka balancing bears). Next week we’ll finish our end of year assessment and launch into space with a fun, math-centric project! Ms. Kelly’s crew has been diving deep into fraction comparisons this week! We explored how to compare both fractions with the same denominator and fractions with the same numerator but different denominators. When fractions share the same denominator, it’s all about the numerator—the greater the numerator, the larger

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group is deep into our graphing unit! We made T charts for our favorite weekend day and types of weather in Austin per month. We also made a tally chart and practiced reading a pictograph in which one picture represented 2 students. Next, we shifted our focus to surveys. After learning what they are, the Betas polled their peers, recorded data and analyzed their results. We devoted time to analyzing various graphs and drawing all sorts of information from them. And, we learned LOTS of new graphing games! Ms. Kelly’s crew has been hard at

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group wrapped up our unit on $ & financial literacy by counting & comparing sets of coins, solving coin riddles and story problems, and learning & playing a lot of new games! We also worked on balancing scales, by counting the coins on one end of the scale and building the same amount on the other end using a different combination of coins. Our Beta 1s have become expert coin counters. On Thursday they ROCKED their unit assessment. Way to go, Betas! Ms. Kelly’s crew continues to practice mapping fractions greater than one on number