Reading: In Reading, we read a new nonfiction book titled, Earthquakes, Eruptions, and Other Events That Change Earth. This is a very interesting topic to the students since it is also something we are studying in science. We discussed how readers compare and contrast two books on the same topic. Students practiced the strategy of jotting down important words as they read nonfiction books during literacy centers. Students also practiced finding our week's pattern in texts they read throughout the week. Math: In Math, we started talking about the relationship between addition and subtraction. Students explored this idea through the use of array models and equal group number stories. Students will continue to explore this concept in the week and they will even think about how it relates to division. Writing: In writing, student finalized their published reviews and shared their reviews with classmates during our writing celebration. Social Studies : In social studies students finished exploring their culture/ country of choice through digital resources and collaborated with a partner to compare and contrast aspects of the culture they studied.
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Reading: In Reading, we talked about an author's purpose when writing nonfiction books and how to infer an author's point of view. We read the book, Earthquakes! by Cy Armour during shared reading and students practiced our focus skills with books assigned to them at their level in Epic. Math: In Math, we continued working on addition and subtraction with bigger numbers. Students practiced the partial sums and standard algorithm for addition. They also worked on using base ten blocks to add and subtract. Writing: In writing, students are all almost finished publishing their reviews. Some even decided to type them to get prepared for sharing time. Students will be presenting their work this coming week with other grades. Science: In science, students reflected on their work with plate tectonics and uploaded their work into Seesaw. Reading: In Reading, we read the book Save Water and talked about text features and finding the main idea of every chapter. Students practiced this skill with their own reading during literacy centers. Finding the main idea of a nonfiction text is a skill most students struggle with, so we will continue to work on this in the days to come. We also participated in all the book week events were students got to read to animals, listen to reading in multiple languages and hear from a notable author. Math: In Math, we started our new unit on adding and subtracting with bigger numbers. We learned strategies to use when adding more than one addend and students practiced this through story problems and games. Writing: In writing, we are finishing our writing of reviews. Most students are in the editing/ publishing phase and are getting prepared to share their final piece. Science: In science we continued our learning of plate tectonics and how they help in shaping the surface of the Earth. Students participated in an activity I like to call "Plate Tectonics". Food always makes everything better! Through this activity students learned about convergent, divergent and transform plate boundaries with oceanic and continental plates. We had fruit roll ups representing our oceanic plates and Lotus crackers representing our continental plates. Marshmallow frosting was used to represent the upper layer of the Earth's mantle. Students agreed it was one of the most delicious lessons this year! |
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May 2019
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