Week in Review

1.  On Tuesday, we are having our realistic fiction writing celebration. We hope you all can come from 12:30-1:30! We are getting ready for the celebration by working in groups to present all about writing workshop and the process we went through as writers. In writing workshop, we have started an independent writing project. We are all writing a realistic fiction story.We are getting ideas about writing from our JR books and asking ourselves, "What did my author do to write this part so well?" and then trying it out in our own writing. We also made a calendar and have been putting our assignments and due dates on it to help keep track of where we are in the writing process. We set a due date of November 7th to be published. Since we are all in different places of the writing process, we are coming up with our own writing homework to keep us on track. AP, KL, WV, LM, CH, GF
2. In math, we just finished up our math proof for how many tickets each kid would get in the different groups. After we finished our partner proof, we had a gallery walk and wrote helpful tips for each mathematician. We were also looking for the most efficient proof and talked about using a ten or other landmark number to divide. After our congress, we chose a proof that we were most proud of and hung it up in the classroom. We came up with new goals that we could set for ourselves by looking at the "Powerful Proof" and seeing what we needed to do as mathematicians to reach a 4 power proof. We also used our other proofs and comments from others to help us set goals. ML, CH, SL, CR, AT
3. We have been learning the different word study activities and are getting ready to start on Monday with our word sorts! We learned resort and write about the sort, spelling sentences, blind writing sort, color the category, and word hunt. WD, CH
4. In gym we did the mile run. WT
5. In reading workshop, we are learning strategies to become better readers. We practice these strategies by jotting. One reading strategy is to look at a series of ideas we have and find commonalities and then jot long about the new ideas we are having. We keep track of our thinking throughout the entire books and use boxes and bullets to organize our thinking. The box represent our big ideas or theories and the bullets are the evidence that we find from the text to support our big ideas. CW, WT, TS
6. In art, we are continuing to work on our eagles and many of us have finished. DM
7. In Spanish, we made a skull for the Mexican Celebration Day of the Dead. OP & AT