Week in Review

1. We have been generating ideas for fiction stories by writing small moments and then turning them into possible realistic fiction story ideas. We also thought about issues that matter to us and created a character who struggles with this issue. Lastly, we brainstormed ideas by thinking about stories we wish existed in the world. We brainstormed our own ideas and are writing about something that is important to us! We wrote 5-7 story ideas and then today we picked a story that we want to write about.  We are developing our characters internal and external traits. We described what our characters look like, how they behave, how they think about themselves, how others think about them. ML, CW, AT, WJ, SL, TS, AP
2. In reading workshop, we have been working hard towards achieving our goals. We set reasonable goals for ourselves. We have reading partners and we share our thoughts with them. We are trying to read more and more everyday. We are also jotting down the thinking we have and put them in our reader's notebook when we are done. We have our own reading spots. We read aloud our stories to our reading partners and retold the story to see if we were reading a JR book. We have been picking out JR books and reading them! We shared our reading log with our reading partners and helped each other to set goals. Our reading partners also helped to determine whether we were reading JR books from looking at our logs! We watched a video of two partners who were studying their logs and we noticed how they talk long about their reading lives. We created a chart together as a class to help us study logs and talk long about them. CW, WT, LM, SL, CH, WJ, AT, PD, JW OP
3. In math, we have been working on math strings. We talked with our partners about strategies we are using as mathematicians. We figured out it is easy to move to a landmark number and then add or subtract the extra. We are noticing patterns in math and talking about them. We didn't just say the answer to the problem, we talked about efficient strategies and the numbers. We had an addition and subtraction string. CW, SL, OP, JW, GF, TS
4. We are going to share our me boxes today! OP