Week in Review

September 2nd- September 5th

Music SS, LB, LA

• In music, we played on the xylophones.
• We organized our recorders and put them in Miss Sproch's bin.
• We learned a song about xylophones, glockenspiels, and metallophones 

Writing AR, CB, JB, AM, PD,

• We learned how to brainstorm ideas for essays
• We had an Essay Bootcamp to help us learn the structure of essays
• We wrote an on demand essay that had a thesis and support
• We wrote a class essay and our thesis was, "I love ice cream."
• We revised our very first on demands and made revisions after going through Bootcamp.

Reading LB, PF, AR, DD, RH, KN, JK

• We are reading NF articles and learning to read for main ideas and supporting details.
• We are learning to use boxes and bullets to help us organize our MI and supporting details of the texts we are reading.
• We learned that before we read any text we need to REV UP our minds by looking at text features and preparing ourselves for what we might learn,
• We are learning to choose just right books.
• We are pushing ourselves to shop for a NOW book, and our NEXT TWO so we always have something to read at all times.
• We are setting goals by looking at our reading logs and pushing ourselves to make sure we are working towards achieving our goals! Ask us about our reading goals!

Math AR, LB, DD, RH, LA, CB, DD, TN, KN

• We are learning about arrays and made math posters. We got a number and we had to find all possible arrays and factors.
• We also are talking about fact families.
• We are continuing to warm up our math minds with our math warm ups! Our favorite is Quick Images!
• We using our math books to help us with math.
• We had our first gallery walk of our arrays and factors.
• We learned about prime numbers and that 2 is the only even prime number.
• We learned about square numbers! Square numbers have arrays that have the same dimension (ex: 16 is a square number 4 X 4)
• We discussed area and perimeter.
• We learned how to find factors of numbers. Kathleen and Brenton taught us a helpful strategy to make sure we have them all! Start small and work up to target number!
• We have been doing unit pages from our "phonebook."

Workshop AR, KP, AM, JC

• During workshop, we can work on reading, writing, math or something we need to catch up on from our earlier workshops.
• We can shop for just right books during this time, too!
• We learned how to prioritize the work that needs to get done.
• We have a catch up folder to put the work that we need to finish.

Spanish AR, LB, KP, JW, 

• We learned how to say when we were born in Spanish.
• We learned about worry dolls.
• We passed around the Mexican Mouse, Speedy Gonzalez, and we had to say our name in Spanish, and ask someone else what their name is.
• Senora Guillen shared a Costa Rican coffee maker from Costa Rica.
• We read a book called, Silly Billy and it was about Billy being worried.

Team Building OC, KN, CB

• We learned about empathy and how to show respect to everyone.
• We watched a video to help us understand how to respect others and to have empathy.
• Empathy is being able to step into someone's shoes and see/understand how others may be feeling.
• We had a whole school assembly about following the Ox Ridge Code. We talked about being respectful to all.

We were able to survive the heat this week. Good thing Miss Sproch bought an extra fan to help keep us cool!