11-15 Mid Quarter
11/21-11/25 Thanksgiving Break
Reading
Book reports were completed and shared this week. The student were also to share all about their biography. While presenting the other student wrote down notes about people they would like to read about after hearing their classmates project.
Genres for future book reports
November: historical fiction
December: NO BOOK REPORT
January: Folktale
February: Fantasy
March/April: Non-fiction
The students explored using their thick and thin questions to ask questions about the setting. We used both fiction and non-fiction books to explore how different setting effect the story. The student were able to ask meaningful questions. They also practice finding the answers to their questions by looking for clues from the author in their book.
I can show emotions through voice in my writing.
The students experienced many different writing samples and decided what emotions the author was trying to convey with their voice. Then students picked their own emotion and used their personal writing voice to convey the emotion. Their writings were inspired by Memoirs of a Goldfish. Each students picked a domesticated animal and an emotion and created their story. The story were taken through the editing process and each student produced a final copy.
Math
We had the following goals in math this week.
How multiplication and division are inverse properties and can undo one another
Using multiplication and division fact families to create number sentences
Practicing multiplication short cuts
The students are being exposed to the relationship between multiplication and division. They are also using array and repetitive addition to solve multiplication problems. We also practiced with fact families and creating 2 multiplication and 2 division problems from each family. Learning the 0 and 1 short cut helped the students recognize what will happen anytime you multiply by 1 or 0.
Social Studies
The students were able to experience their own mock classroom on Tuesday. After studying each candidate the student cast their own vote for president. We also studied character traits of different character in election themed books. After collecting the responsibilities of president the students decided which book character would make the best president.
Here are some pictures of the classroom election
Science
This week the students started their unit on weather. We are tracking everyday weather temperatures, wind speeds and directions, sunrise and sunset times. The students are also describing each day and even predicting tomorrow's weather.
Have a wonderful weekend,
Mrs. Ray
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