Week in Review

September 21- September 25

Top 3:

• We wrote letters to our parents about the top 3 things we wanted them to know about us as learners. LK

Writing:

• We started drafting our realistic fiction pieces! CN
• For homework we continued drafting for 15 minutes! BV
• We are trying to include details about the setting and sounds so we can draw it into our readers minds. DR
• When we use dialogue in our writing we are making sure we start a NEW paragraph every time a NEW person speaks. AD

Math:

• We are taking a math test in class. JW
• We talked about multiplication tricks to help us figure out the products. GG
• We are working on writing multiplication story problems. BW

Reading:

• We are looking closely to our characters to get to know them better and grow ideas about them.
• We are learning how to think deeper about our characters by using thought prompts and evidence.
• We checked in on our goals and helped one another monitor our goals. JW
• We are reading a new book called, "El Deafo." We are reading this because the author is coming to talk to us. The story is based on the author's life! BW

Word Study:

• We are learning the different activities that we will be using to study spelling patterns. CJ
• Today, we learned how to do a word hunt. This is where we reread a part of a story hunting for words that also use our spelling pattern. LS
• We learned to resort and write about the sort so we can understand why these spelling patterns happen.