This week we spent many of our days wrapping up our PYP Unit: Who We Are, I taught the last narrative writing lesson and fiction reading lesson. Students will start finishing up their narrative writing pieces, take a post-assessment to show their understanding of inferences, summaries, character traits, and their understanding of texts. We also had a lesson from our counselor, Mrs. Randolph, about diversity. It was a very powerful lesson and all the students were engaged. Math: We started our Geometry Unit about polygons, quadrilaterals, parallel lines, right angles, etc. Students need to be able to classify shapes and describe attributes about them. The students were given examples of polygons and examples of non-polygons. As groups, they had to come up with a definition of their own. We continued this activity for quadrilaterals and parallel lines as well. Ask Your Child: What is a polygon? Answer: A shape with straight sides and no openings. Literacy: Our focus this week was on identifying character traits in the books we are reading. To help us identify character traits, it helps to look at a character's action, what they say, and what they think or feel. Students participated by writing down their character's trait, what evidence from the book made them think that, and then put it on our sticky note wall. See the picture below. Ask Your Child: How would you describe the character in your book? Writing: This week I taught student that good narratives have strong endings, are written in paragraphs, and use dialogue correctly. Students practiced those skills in their writing. We will be writing our final drafts after spending some time editing their work. I have posted all of the anchor charts students are using to write their narratives on the white board, so they are front and center. Take a look at everything they are working to incorporate into their narratives. Science: Students are working on finishing their finals projects for our PYP Unit: Who We Are. As a class, they came up with a rubric they wanted to be graded on. So, I will be using that to grade students on their final pieces. They are identifying 3-5 inherited and acquired traits and writing a short piece on an acquired trait they would like to improve this school year.
FYIs! -Book Fair is this week. Our class will be shopping on November 1st. They may bring money during that time to shop for books. -YOUR CHILD NEEDS TO BE PRACTICING THIER MATH FACTS! :) I can't stress this. As a class, students performed poorly this week. I was bummed to see their results on Friday. They will be tested again on Thursday. Students should have passed their 2's this week. -Spelling will begin this week. They will be getting 5 words they personally misspelled. Their test will be on Thursday. -Reminder no costumes on Tuesday.
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