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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