I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and some relaxing time away from the normal routine. I think my family is all healthy now, after a week of lying low.
This week's IA: PE
Next week's IA: Art
*Please remember that we DO have library tomorrow and all library books are due back. Students will be able to check out new books, if both of their old ones have been turned back in.
Reader's Workshop
To coincide with our persuasive letter study in writing, we are reading many persuasive texts. While reading these, we are concentrating on the questions we have before, during, and after reading. We're also being metacognitive about the details we notice. We're deciding if the details we notice are important, or unimportant but interesting. Another thing we think about while reading is how we infer what the author means. This is when we use our background knowledge and combine that with clues from the text to figure out what is really meant, but not always said.
Writer's Workshop
This week, we will begin to assess our persuasive letter using a rubric that will help us look closely at the organization and voice in our letters. These are two traits that all writers use in their writing. Once we've assessed our letters, we'll work to make these traits better before we revise, edit, and publish.
Math
The unit we just started has us working on different types of number stories. You might remember these as "word problems." I don't know about you, but I totally hated these growing up! I hope that by showing the kids the different types of problems there are and by teaching them how to use the various diagrams, they won't grow up despising these as much as I did.
Expedition
We are currently working as statisticians to compile, analyze, and graph the data we collected at the Starlighting event. Once we're done with this step, we'll take our findings to the Castle Rock Chamber of Commerce. Thank you, everyone, for bringing your children out on a Saturday to do school work!
I'm sure you saw the maps we created to show you how to find our booth.
Susan, from the Chamber of Commerce, spoke to us about what data they would like us to collect.
Field Work!
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