E-8, The Great!: Pokemon Info Writing, Number Lines, and More Inferences!

Howdy Folks!

Let's recap the last few days!

During Writer's Workshop sessions, we've been working on informational writing pertaining to the topic of...Pokemon! We wrote a flash draft during one session, writing, with expertise, all we know about this particular topic! The next session, we decomposed our flash draft into parts and created a tentative table of contents using those parts, understanding that we will be eventually organizing those parts that our guide book makes more sense for the reader! On Friday, we took one of those parts/chapters and expanded it by adding more details/and information that our readers should know about!

During math sessions, we've been focusing our energy towards practicing telling time! We've been using the number line as a tool to solve for elapsed time (e.g how many minutes was the walk to school), the start time (e.g. What time we should leave our house if the movie start at 4:20 pm, and it takes us 25 minutes to get there), and the end time (e.g. If we leave the house at 5:06, and it takes us 17 minutes to get to the party, what time will we arrive?). We then utilized the strategies and tools for telling time and multiplication to tackle an assessment dealing with the aforementioned math concepts!

During reading sessions (we've been reading Matilda and HP:The Sorcerer's Stone) we have been honing our reasoning skills to make inferences, and providing textual evidence/clues as a basis for our inference!