This week flew by and was a ton of fun! The students spent a great deal of their week as inquirers as they worked with each other to figure out several pieces of information. Rather than telling them this is how it works or this is how to solve the problem, I often let students wrestle with it and work with one another. More times than not, they figure whatever we are learning out. :) Math: This week we took our final assessment for module one and began module two. Throughout this module students will be studying time and measurement. To begin the unit, students worked with one another to see if they could relate a clock to a number line. Here is what they came up with: Students placed 12 tick lines on their number line and then labeled them 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, etc to represent five minute intervals. Next, they had to represent our daily schedule on a number line. It took them a bit of time to figure it out but they succeeded after communicating with their teammates. They did such a wonderful job working with one another! It was a lot of fun to watch them be deep thinkers and reflect on their creations.
The students are also getting really great at skip counting by 4's and 6's. We are trying to master them so we can memorize our facts quicker! Keep practicing those facts at home! Writing: Students began to prepare and plan for writing their personal narrative. Students began to break down their stories into three main events and sketch out pictures for each of those events. They labeled their sketches using dialogue and descriptive words that described what they remember seeing, feeling, smelling, and touching. The students are very eager to turn their pictures into writing! Literacy: Our big focus in literacy this week was the study of prefixes. I placed a list of several words on the board with the prefix "re". For example, rewind and restart. I had students work with their partner to talk about what they noticed about the words that were on the board. Many of them made observations that all the words started with "re". Some students went as far as noticing that all the words had to do with doing something over again. It was after their observations and reflections that I introduced the term prefix to them. We have been looking at how prefixes change the meaning of the root word. They are finding prefixes in the books they are reading as well as in our class read aloud! We have specifically talked about the prefix "dis" and "un". Be sure to stop and talk about them if you come across them at home! :) I am excited to see what they bring to the table this week! Best, Miss Hodgkinson
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Sept. 14th- First Day of Online Learning
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