Dear families,

this post is for families of students in my third block math class.

We have been working hard on our geometry unit for the past few weeks! Students have learned to identify different angles, triangles, and quadrilaterals, following a complex set of rules to identify various polygons and justify their thinking.

Today, they began a winter geometry art project, in which they are creating a winter scene that includes many geometric figures that are their vocabulary words. A few of them chose to bring their project home to work on over the vacation, but most people chose to leave them here to continue after break. If your child brought his or her project home, would you please encourage him or her to work on it (but please know that I am not requiring them to do this work over the vacation). We will finish them as a review of our vocabulary when we return in January.

When we come back, we will have one more week with geometry to learn the parts of circles and review all of the vocabulary that we have learned so far, then we will have our test and move on to our next unit: division!

To support your child, it would be awesome if they could spend a few minutes once or twice over break just practicing their basic facts, whether on flash cards that you make with them or on our favorite website, firstinmath.com. (They all know their logins for the website.)

I hope your holiday is restful and joyful, and that you enjoy your time with your loved ones close to you!