Week In Review 10/7 - 10/11

1. We earned two more pieces to the Mrs. Potato head, we need 5 more to go! SL
2. We looked through our reading notebooks and were reflecting on our reading lives. We noticed strategies that we have been using a lot and strategies that we want to work more with. We are reaching the end of our character unit. We have been pushing ourselves to look at a series of ideas and push ourselves to see commonalities between them. As readers, we are trying to use thought prompts to push our thinking and to make our jots complex. We learned how to not leave jots or thoughts behind. CR, WJ, GF, CW, AT
3. In gym, we have been practicing our fitness test by working on our push ups, curl ups, and even dodgeball. WT
4. We started Social Studies today and we read a book called, "Rachel's Home on Bear Mountain." We created a chart and wrote or sketched everything we know about Native Americans in Connecticut and Connecticut's Environment. After we read the book, we shared our new thinking about Connecticut's environment. We compared our old thinking with our new learning. SL, CW, OP
5. In writing, we are working hard on our independent writing projects. We are all at different parts of the writing process. Some writers are drafting, others are editing & revising. We started word study and have been practicing our sorts. We had an on demand writing piece about an issue/argument that we felt strongly about. On Tuesday, we shared our stories with our parents during the writing celebration. SL, ET, OP, WD, AP
6. In math, we started making a proof for the amusement park problem. We had to figure out how many strips of ten the teachers would get. We also had to figure out how many tickets we bought in all. There were 100 kids and each kid received 42 tickets. How many tickets in all is this? How many strips of ten. PD
7. In music, Mrs. Lettera greets us with the hello song! SM
8. In art, we are have to draw something small in the background, something medium in the middleground, and something large in the foreground. SM