Week in Review

11/2 -11/6

Writing:

We worked on writing strong leads and endings for our essays! AD

We have been writing lots of mini stories to support our thesis statements! LK

We have been revising our mini stories to make them as strong as possible. We do this by highlighting the parts that prove our thesis statement and revise the parts that don’t. BV & MR

We created folders for our reasons and started to fill them with evidence! GG

We decided on an order for our evidence and folders, taped them together, and use transition words to glue our ideas together. JE & CN

Science:

We are learning about electricity and magnetism. CJ

We had to guess what an item was in a mystery bag… shhhh! We cannot tell you what it is because we are sworn to secrecy! AA

We are going to switch with the other teachers to learn different topics in science. WM

We are making hypotheses about what types of materials will stick to magnets and what types of materials will not stick to magnets. We will then conduct an experiment to confirm or revise our hypotheses. LD

Reading:

We went to the library to shop for narrative nonfiction. Narrative nonfiction is learning nonfiction information through story form. LS

We are learning to identify text structures and use them to help us find MAIN IDEAS and supporting details, organize our new learning, and write summaries! BW

Main idea is what the text is all about. You can find it by looking for a POP OUT sentence. LK

The pop out sentence is usually the first, last or sometimes the second sentence. JE

Math:

We took a preassessment for our next unit which is multiplication and division! MR

We also took a two-pen assessment to see how we are doing with our fluency on multiplication facts. AA

We made new math goals for homework. VS

Other:

We had a Veteran’s Day celebration to honor the veterans and how they served our country. CH

We got to ask the veteran’s questions about their service and listen to the fifth grade chorus. DR

There was an assembly from the Connecticut Ballet Center. They showed us dances from around the world. EVERYONE