Week in Review

September 29 - October 3

Reading Workshop JK, PF, LB, PD, KN, DD, SS

• In narrative nonfiction, we are looking to our characters and trying to figure out an important lesson or message that the book can teach us.
• We are continuing to push ourselves to set reading goals, work towards achieving them, and then set new ones!
• Today was Fiction Friday and we also wrote new goals for ourselves.
• We went to the library to get just right narrative books.
• We looked at the pros and cons of our character's decisions in order to grow big ideas about them.
• We learned to use a formula to help us grow ideas about our characters: Sombody... Wanted... But... So... This make me think _______ is the kind of person who ________ because (evidence).

Word Study CB, RH, KN, JC

• We got to choose a level 4 activity: we can draw comics, write letters, create a commercial, or write a creative story.
• We have four different level activities to complete and we get different points for each level.
• We are going to get our new word study words and groups on Monday.
• We did more activities than usual this week because we were learning all the trickier activities.

Gym BD, LB. LA, CB, DD, KN

• We ran the mile!
• Our whole class reached the fitness level!
• There were two groups, one group was running the other groups was not. If you weren't running you wrote down your partners score.
• We played soccer.
• We did exercises to warm up for the mile run.
• We did the practice push up test in groups.

Math LB, JK, LA, JC, TN, CB, DD, AM

• In math, we are solving a problem that has to do with an amusement park and tickets. The music department has been thinking about taking a field trip.
• We made math proofs this week!
• We started playing xtra math at home this week. Our first math logs were due today!
• We have been learning how to solve division using arrays and dealing out.
• We played a game called Fill the Machine.
• We played Four Corners the "The Grown Up" version. Ask us about it!
• We are continuing to practice our multiplication cards and boost our fact fluency!
• We made a poster of things we can do as mathematicians when we are "done" with math. 
• We have been working on math strings.

Writing Workshop AR, PD, DD, RH, JB

• We started publishing our essays today!
• We edited our essays using a checklist.
• We made strong leads and endings for our essays.
• We revised and made sure we had all the important details we needed to prove our thesis.
• We did sentence surgery to make sure we did not have any run-ons or fragments in our writing.
• Our published piece is due Tuesday!

Science OC, JW, CB

• We learned about magnets and what they stick to.
• We learned that steel and iron stick to magnets and search for them in the classroom.
• We found out that only one of our classroom doors has iron/steel in it.