Our Week In Review

The last two weeks in room 24 have been VERY busy!

During reading, we finished reading Saving Winslow, by Sharon Creech.  While reading, students focused on finding character traits for different

characters, and supported their thinking with evidence from the text. 

Students independently tracked their thinking digitally, and while looking at their

thinking we had rich discussions about how characters changed throughout the story. 

We wrapped up with a few end of book activities. Students rated this book, and many gave it a 10!

After break we will begin to make connections between this book and heroes, and following t

his we will begin a unit on mythology.

Mrs. A. reading to fourth grade during our weekly meeting.

During writing, students finished writing their persuasive essays on dogs. 

We spent this past week writing different poems, including nonfiction poems,

memory poems and we began writing RAP poems.  Students will continue

with this writing after break. Our next writing activity, after vacation, will be

writing the next chapter in Saving Winslow. 

During math we have explored many aspects of fractions.  Students used fraction

strips and pieces to add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers.  We worked at

changing mixed numbers to improper fractions and improper fractions to mixed numbers.

This week, we began learning about how to multiply whole numbers with fractions. 

We used fraction pieces and models, and then learned how to do this using steps.

We also began to explore the connection between fractions and decimals.

We were able to use beaded number lines to show our thinking. 

This work will continue after vacation.

During science, we continued to explore internal and external animal and plant structures. 

We participated in many experiments, making hypotheses and observing over days.

We will wrap up this unit before break.

During social studies, we finished learning about the Northeast Region. We completed

our NE Jigsaw slideshows and presented them to our class.

After vacation, our travels will take us to the United States Capital, Washington, D.C.  

Last week, we celebrated World Read Aloud Day!  We read with our new first grade friends, and then created artwork about the book we read.  We all agreed we would love to get together with our new friends again soon!