Week in Review

1. In reading workshop, we are learning how to use boxes and bullets to help us organize our thinking for main idea and supporting details. We are trying to become the experts in one topic. If we are looking for a main idea we can look for a pop out sentence and try to support it with key details. The pop out sentence is either in the beginning of a paragraph or the end. We also got to read our fiction books and use the strategies we know. We also talked about the importance of bringing forward all the stuff we have learned. See the chart we created together below:
      (ML, CH, WT, GF, SL)
2. In gym, we did the flexibility test. We got three tries to reach forward as far as you could. CW, WD
3. In math, we have been using the phonebook and talking about numbers up to 1,000. We are learning to use the open number to model our thinking when adding. When adding, we can break up a number into smaller landmark numbers to help add. We learning many strategies for adding so we have a large tool belt of strategies for adding. PD, KL, CH, AP
4. We had two parties, we celebrated Halloween and Lachlan's birthday! AT
5. In writing workshop we have been brainstorming essay ideas. Here are some strategies we learned: 
   
   We are also using thought prompts to push our thinking and write long about one topic. OnHalloween, we wrote Halloween essays. We got prompts to help us with essay ideas and used essay bootcamp to help us write them! CH, AT, ML, ET
6. We are studying for a BIG Spanish test and it is going on our report card this year. JW