Howdy Folks!
Hmmmm…let’s see what we’ve been working on this week!
In Reader’s Workshop, we’ve been practicing the skill of growing
ideas about characters that we’re
reading! That is, we’ve been stopping as we’re reading in order to notice
any patterns
in a character’s actions, and notice any new actions of said character
that change those patterns. We
then ask ourselves why might this character act like this? All of this is having
us practice close-reading, summarizing/retelling, and making inferences using evidence from the text.
Booyah!
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| Collaborating in order to make meaning of the text we're reading! |
For Writer’s Workshop, we’ve been practicing developing
scenes that display our character’s motivations and struggles! So, after
forming the inner and outer traits of our character, we also listed possible
desires and challenges these characters might have! We then develop and
summarize a few scenes that display these desires and challenges,
pick one of those scenes, envision
the actions, words, thoughts of the character(s) in the scene as though it were
a movie (in order to show, not tell), and then we write, write, write
out that scene! Seems easy, but this process takes A LOT of practice!
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| Sharing our writing with one another! |
For math this week, we’ve been practicing estimating by deciding how exact our
estimation needs to be in relationship to the actual answer. We then utilize
the structure of place value to
perform these estimations by rounding to the tens, hundred, or thousands!!
We’ve also been practicing the standard algorithm for addition, discussing what regrouping actually
means, and checking for precision when employing the algorithm!
Along with the standard algorithm, we’ve been practicing
decomposing numbers, as another method for addition. This requires us to,
again, use the structure of place value, in order to break down numbers into
more efficient parts to add!
We also had Science Lab this week, going over the scientific
process with Mrs. Seachrist!
And we talked about mental health and how it ties in with social-emotional learning this week!
We hung out with our kinder buddies too!
And that's a wrap folks! Cheers, and have a good one!
