Week in Review 9/16 - 9/20

1. In Writing Workshop we are really close to finishing your stories. We were reading our draft through different color glasses to teach us that writers revise their stories by reading through different lenses. We have been revising our drafts in different colored pens to show how we are improving our stories. These lenses helped us revise our drafts in different ones, for example we read through the lens of cardboard character alert making sure that our character wasn't floating. We created a Tips, Advice & Reminders section in our Writer's Notebooks. We created our own teacher charts to remind ourselves of the great things writers do. For example, some of us studied mentor texts for punctuation and dialogue. We included these in our tips and advice section to remind us how to use these different types of punctuation. At home, we made a writing spot for ourselves and drew a picture of it. We put stuff that would inspire us to write in these places. DM, CW, JW, WJ, 
2. In Math we started looking at a different vending machine: The Iced Tea Machine. We were trying to find out how many boxes of iced tea would fit in the whole iced tea machine. The machine would hold 132 bottles. Each box held 10 six packs, which we figured out was 60 bottles. We came to the conclusion that the vending machine would hold 2 boxes and 2/10 of a box. It also held 2 boxes and 2 six packs. Lastly, it held 22 six packs. After talking with our partners, we then created a partner proof. We made a math portfolio and we put our very first proof alone and our very first partner proof in them. We made a goal to help push us to be the best mathematician we could possibly be both independently and with a partner! SL, JW, AP, WJ, AT, CR
3. In gym we have been playing soccer. We played in teams four on four. We started training for fitness test. WT, WD, PD
4. In reading workshop, we have been working on making predictions. We make predictions by paying attention to the characters and figure out what they will do next and how they will do it. When we make predictions we read on and sometimes have to revise or grow a new idea. We use the evidence from the text to prove our thinking. We are also carrying forward all the strategies we have learned since the beginning of the year and third grade, such as growing a movie in our mind. We are in the middle of our character unit. WT, OP, ML, CH, LM, CR,