Week in Review

                                                       September 15th- September 18th

Math: 

• We are going to be working on our multiplication facts to help us practice our speed and accuracy. We will use Xtra Math to help us! LK
• We learned that mathematicians sketch story problems to help us understand what the question is asking us. LS
• We played Multiplication War to help us learn our multiplication and determine which combinations we know vs which combinations we need to work on. GG
• We talked about multiples.. we can think of multiples by skip counting! JE

Writing:

• We are creating story arcs to help us plan out how our story will go. AD
• We developed our characters by using T-charts to think about their internal and external traits. CL
• We wrote test scenes to take our characters out for a ride to see how they would act! BV
• We also developed our secondary characters! MR
• We thought about what our characters REALLY want and what struggles will get in their way! CN
• We are practicing our cursive handwriting. Today we worked on lowercase a. VS

Reading:

• We are learning how to make evidence based predictions in our JR books. JW
• We are setting goals and monitoring our progress! WM
• We are continuing to read intensely and learning more ways to do so! BW

Second Steps:

• We are learning how to listen attentively. CJ
• We are practicing to make eye contact when we are listening attentively. CH

Word Study:

• We made a class word wall. We added homophones that are commonly misspelled: wear, where, we're, were and there, their, they're. LD
• We also are beginning to learn various activities to help us study our spelling patterns. AA
• We learned how to do flip folder! DR