Here's a taste of what we've been doing this week:
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| Experts taught their groups everything they'd learned about their region. Then we played the process grid game. |
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| Students put heads together to learn from their expert. |
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| Rain Shadow Effect Demonstration. Ask your student all about this and how the effect works in Washington. |
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| Class Sort. Students took turns sorting words on the Activboard. |
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| Mr. Ciraulo came to our class to talk about problem solving. He will join us monthly to help us apply a four step problem solving method. |
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| Students gave student council representative speeches. Then we voted for two representatives. |
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| Student Council Speeches. Each fourth and fifth grade class will elect two representatives. |
Math
- Took Unit 2 assessment and open response Monday
- Started Unit 3 on multiplication & division, number
sentences & algebra
- Please print & hang on to the Unit 3 Family letter
(attached to my email)
- Reviewed what’s my rule problems, strategies for solving
multiplication facts, & the 50s facts test routine
Reading
- Started reading buddies with Miss Evanger’s 2nd
grade class
- Began a new set of word sort words & did some sorts
- Read John Henry
and talked about hyperbole, features of tall tales, and similes
- Class discussed “what we know to be true about reading” and
then students began their reading response journals with their own thoughts
about this
- Started a new read aloud—The
Gollywhopper Games (A Sasquatch Award Winning Book this year)
Writing
- Looked deeper at zooming in on the heart of stories
- Students wrote and revised clean copies of the story they
will publish
- Students began revising conferences with me and with student
coaches
Social Studies
- Finished expert groups
- Experts taught their group about their region, then we
played the process grid game
- Students filled in their process grids
- Conducted a rain shadow simulation
