December 7th- December 11th

Geography Bee:

• We are currently on the last couple of rounds of our class geography bee. Stay tuned for the winner of our class bee! JW

Math:

• We measured how tall we were using multiple towers. We measured our height in the number of multiples we were! AD
• We are working on our multiplication facts. We used our multiplication cards to figure out which ones we know and which ones we need to work on. We are working on them! GG
• We are continuing to learn about factors, prime numbers, and multiples. BW
• We talked about which  number had more factors, 24 or 25? We determined that a larger number does NOT mean that it will have more factors than a SMALLER number. LK
• We did a count around and noticed how the multiples of 3 and 30 are similiar! The multiples of 30 are ten times greater than the multiples of 3! AA
• Miss Sproch gave us some holiday math problems to work on. BV
• We are learning to work WITH our partners, instead of NEXT to our partners. WM & BV

Hour of Code:

• We learned about computer programming and coding. Sarah Judd, a computer scientist, came in to teach us all about programming. CL
• We watched a video of how you could program robots to play soccer. We also got to see the inside world of working at Google. Did you know they have a ball pit? It's weird, but it's true! CH

Writing:

• We finished editing and revising our literary essays! CN
• We used a checklist to help us look at our pieces using different lenses. VS
• We drafted leads and endings. We studied a mentor essay and noticed what that writer did to help us write our leads and endings. MR
• We flash drafted our essays in order to make them look like essays and put all the parts together. CH
• We read our essays backwards for spelling errors! WM

Science:

• We are currently trying to answer the question: Do magnets have different strengths. We are doing this by conducting an experiment that will test different shapes of magnets, different sizes of magnets, and using multiple magnets to determine how many paper clips they will pick up. CJ

Reading:

• We started the SPROCHSTAR READING & ATTITUDE CHALLENGE. Every night we have a challenge that we are trying to meet! LD
• We are reading partner books and looking for lessons and themes within them! CJ
• When you are writing about a lesson your book is teaching you, it is important to use evidence from the text to prove your idea. We are using what we know about essays to help us write about lessons! JW
• When you are writing about a lesson you have to say when you should do this and why you should do this! BV
• We read the "Empty Pot" and "A Days Work" and we noticed they had the same theme but taught different lessons! JE
• We are reading Land of Stories... Alex is started to get really weird and is acting out of character! Something BIG is about to happen! DR