Weekly Updates and Reminders:
- Parent/Teacher Conferences are Thursday, December 14th. It is also a half day of school for your child. School will be dismissed at 11:09am. We look forward to meeting with you all at Parent/Teacher Conferences.
- We are so excited for our Holiday Celebration. We will have a Pajama and Pancake breakfast, along with a book exchange and a craft on Thursday, December 21. Please turn in your book ($5 limit) for the Book Exchange by Friday, December 15.
- There will be no school on Friday, December 22-Tuesday, January 2 due to the Holiday break. School will resume on Wednesday, January 3.
Math:
As we deepen our understanding of the relationship between multiplication and division, students are learning about the commutative property (turn around rule). This week students worked with a team to discuss if division also has a turn around rule? Their challenge was to work together, use a mathematical model to explain their thinking, and a written explanation. Three groups were asked to present their work to their peers. Below are pictures of their thinking and presentations. I love when students' understandings manifests themselves into a learning opportunity for all! By allowing students to teach their peers or share their understanding, it provides another opportunity for learning as well as solidifying understanding for the students presenting. So much learning from this activity!
As we deepen our understanding of the relationship between multiplication and division, students are learning about the commutative property (turn around rule). This week students worked with a team to discuss if division also has a turn around rule? Their challenge was to work together, use a mathematical model to explain their thinking, and a written explanation. Three groups were asked to present their work to their peers. Below are pictures of their thinking and presentations. I love when students' understandings manifests themselves into a learning opportunity for all! By allowing students to teach their peers or share their understanding, it provides another opportunity for learning as well as solidifying understanding for the students presenting. So much learning from this activity!
Social Studies:
Science:
Writing:
This week we started our writing unit on Informational Text. The students will be writing a non-fiction minibook. We talked about how the purpose of Informational writing is to WRITE to TEACH. The students started brainstorming topics that they know a lot about. We will be examining these topics further and the students will begin to learn how to gather facts, take notes, and begin to put their ideas together into headings and subheadings. We will also be using mentor texts to learn a variety of text features. The students are so excited to begin their informational minibooks.
Students will take their assessment this coming Monday and I will share their scores during Parent/Teacher Conferences.
This Week in Word Study and Grammar:
Writing:
This week we started our writing unit on Informational Text. The students will be writing a non-fiction minibook. We talked about how the purpose of Informational writing is to WRITE to TEACH. The students started brainstorming topics that they know a lot about. We will be examining these topics further and the students will begin to learn how to gather facts, take notes, and begin to put their ideas together into headings and subheadings. We will also be using mentor texts to learn a variety of text features. The students are so excited to begin their informational minibooks.
Reading:
We just finished our read aloud Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel and wrapped up our unit on Character Studies. The students did a great job with this unit and really learned what it means to follow a character along the ups and downs through their journey. The students also did a great job comparing and contrasting the two main characters (Dyamonde and Opal) from our last two read alouds. They met in their Thinking Teams to make an argument about which character they think would make a better friend. They had to support their position with evidence from the story and have a friendly debate with their team members.
We will be starting a new unit next week where we will be focusing on reading Informational Text.
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