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It felt GREAT to have a FULL week of school together. It has been a really fun week. In math, we have been digging deeper into multiplication. We thought about different multiplication scenarios, and discussed key words in word problems that tell us to multiply. After this discussion, we wrote our own multiplication stories that went along with a fact within the 12 times tables. Ask your child what theirs was!
After this, we discussed the difference between a factor and a multiple, and what strategies we could use to determine if a number is a factor of another number. For example, is 4 a factor of 51? First, we could multiply 4 x 12 = 48. Then, if we add another 4 it is 52. Therefore, it is NOT a factor. To practice this skill, we played a game "Multiple Turnover." This can be found on Pearson's website.
As writers this week, we finished planning our personal essays with a variety of supporting details: mini-stories, lists, examples, opinions, thoughts, and opinions of others. After finishing our "Big T" Plan, we "storytold" our essays across fingers with a partner to prepare for writing. This cycle, we are deciding to draft directly on Google Drive rather than drafting on paper. This is in an effort to prepare students for PARCC, where they will be required to do this. The class is really excited about this! We started drafting yesterday and we will revise next week!
In reading, students have been working in their science/research groups to create a presentation on a biome. They are collaborating to combine their notes as a group to create a clear presentation to teach the rest of their classmates about their biome's climate, geographical location, organisms that live there, how they adapt, etc. They have been working really well on these together and I cannot wait for presentations next week!
This week, we focused on the battles of the Revolutionary War. Students researched a particular battle in class, and summarized the important information in their words. We jigsawed this activity by having students walk around and teach one another about their battle. We talked about the end of the Revolutionary War: The Battle of Yorktown and the Treaty of Paris. We will have our test on Tuesday after two days of review!
Have a fantastic weekend!
After this, we discussed the difference between a factor and a multiple, and what strategies we could use to determine if a number is a factor of another number. For example, is 4 a factor of 51? First, we could multiply 4 x 12 = 48. Then, if we add another 4 it is 52. Therefore, it is NOT a factor. To practice this skill, we played a game "Multiple Turnover." This can be found on Pearson's website.
As writers this week, we finished planning our personal essays with a variety of supporting details: mini-stories, lists, examples, opinions, thoughts, and opinions of others. After finishing our "Big T" Plan, we "storytold" our essays across fingers with a partner to prepare for writing. This cycle, we are deciding to draft directly on Google Drive rather than drafting on paper. This is in an effort to prepare students for PARCC, where they will be required to do this. The class is really excited about this! We started drafting yesterday and we will revise next week!
In reading, students have been working in their science/research groups to create a presentation on a biome. They are collaborating to combine their notes as a group to create a clear presentation to teach the rest of their classmates about their biome's climate, geographical location, organisms that live there, how they adapt, etc. They have been working really well on these together and I cannot wait for presentations next week!
This week, we focused on the battles of the Revolutionary War. Students researched a particular battle in class, and summarized the important information in their words. We jigsawed this activity by having students walk around and teach one another about their battle. We talked about the end of the Revolutionary War: The Battle of Yorktown and the Treaty of Paris. We will have our test on Tuesday after two days of review!
Have a fantastic weekend!