D-405 has been a very productive place this week! In math, we learned SO much about fractions: how to identify fractions of a region and a set, how to draw models for fractions, adding and subtracting fractions, find equivalent fractions, and even comparing fractions! We have been taking part in "TOP CHEF" Quickfire Challenges in order to practice these skills. What better place to practice fractions than in the kitchen, right? Please see our portal for anchor charts on these topics to support your child at home.
As writers this week, we wrapped up our work on Literary Essays. Ask your child to see their essays...they are bringing them home today! We used a revising and editing checklist to look at our work, and then worked with a partner to do the same. Today, we celebrated with a pizza party and an "award" ceremony. Students shared their writing with a partner, and then they nominated their partner for an award like "Best Supporting Details" or "Strongest Textual Evidence." Ask your child what they were nominated for!
In reading, we have been focusing on the various tasks that we may see on the PARCC assessment. Students have been navigating these texts, and responding to multiple-choice and open-ended questions on the topic. We have done a research simulation, a literary analysis, and narrative task. After completing a portion, we have been spending time discussing and sharing strategies used. Often times, these are surrounded around the textual evidence that helped us form our answer. For the research simulation and narrative task, we really focused on using textual evidence in our open-ended questions. This includes direct paragraphs and page numbers that we feel supports our answers to the question. For narrative, we focused on planning strategies because this task requires students to read a selection and respond with their own form of original writing. This could be a newspaper article, informational text, fiction story...related to the text. The task that we read, "The Tale of the Lonely Magnet," asked students to write a story as if they were an inanimate object, also. We planned for the story today using the graphic organizer below:
In reading, we have been focusing on the various tasks that we may see on the PARCC assessment. Students have been navigating these texts, and responding to multiple-choice and open-ended questions on the topic. We have done a research simulation, a literary analysis, and narrative task. After completing a portion, we have been spending time discussing and sharing strategies used. Often times, these are surrounded around the textual evidence that helped us form our answer. For the research simulation and narrative task, we really focused on using textual evidence in our open-ended questions. This includes direct paragraphs and page numbers that we feel supports our answers to the question. For narrative, we focused on planning strategies because this task requires students to read a selection and respond with their own form of original writing. This could be a newspaper article, informational text, fiction story...related to the text. The task that we read, "The Tale of the Lonely Magnet," asked students to write a story as if they were an inanimate object, also. We planned for the story today using the graphic organizer below: