Since this week was a short week, I decided to combine the last two weeks into one update. Our classroom won the golden music award this week! Woo hoo! For those of you who do not know, classrooms have the opportunity to win a weekly award for any of the specials. This week, it was our turn! Yay!
Math: We finished up our first module on multiplication and division and took the final assessment. I will be sharing their scores throughout conferences so you can see how they performed. The students and I are working through the problems they missed to help them learn from their mistakes! We will be starting our geometry unit next. Literacy: We continued with practicing inferences last week as well as finished our read aloud book, Stone Fox. We started our new read aloud book, Pippi Longstocking. I can hardly read it out loud with laughing. For some reason this book just cracks the kids and me up! :) This week I introduced a new skill: summarizing. I pre-assessed these students on these skills and this was a skill every student in the classroom missed. Thus, we have a lot of learning to do! The way I taught the students is to remember this: someone wanted but so then... Someone: Who are/is the main character/characters? Wanted: What did the character want? But: What is the problem? So: How did the character try to solve it? Then: How did the problem resolve? For example: Little Willy, a ten year old boy, wanted to save his Grandfather from dying of sadness but he did not have enough money to pay the taxes his grandfather owed for the farm. So, he used his college money in his bank account to enter a dog sled race where he could win $500 to save his grandfather's farm and his Grandfather. Then Little Willy entered the race and won the money to pay the taxes for Grandfather's farm. Ask Your Child: What happened at the end of Stone Fox? Did it end the way you thought it would? Why or why not? See if they can summarize it using someone wanted but so then. Writing: They continued to work on their small moment. This week they chose one of the stories they wanted to work on publishing. They then tried out three different leads for their stories to try and hook the reader in. Science: Students had the chance to move throughout stations where each station had a different activity about how nature and nurture influence plants, animals, and people. They LOVED the different activities. One activity required them to see how different amounts of water and different soils affected how flowers would grow. We also had a guest speaker come in. She is a genetic scientists and taught the students all about DNA. The students had the opportunity to create a DNA representation. It was a HUGE hit and we were so thankful to have such a wonderful opportunity! See the picture below to see their DNA creations and them working together on the different stations.
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