Reader’s Workshop
For reader’s workshop we’ve been practicing using precise words, comparisons, and explanations to describe our thoughts about the characters in our book! We’re also practicing revising our ideas on characters, when new important details from the book are put into light!
We're also realizing that characters in our stories are complicated and complex! Characters may act one way in one setting in one relationship, and another way in a different context. Or they may be one way on the outside and another way on the inside! Good readers look for text evidence that shows this complexity to form solid ideas about characters!
Math
This week we’ve been using the array
model to reinforce the relationship between pairs of tens and fives facts. We
recognized that the product of a tens fact can be halved to figure out the
product of a fives fact. We then extend the use-tens
strategy to multiply two-digit factors by five (for
example, 28 × 5).
We’re also working with arrays to build
down from a known tens fact to multiply by nine. You’ll notice that we’ve been
using tens facts as a basis to get to the solution of other facts. That’s
because tens facts are efficient to multiply with and therefore a good place to
start!
We then extend the build-down strategy, a.k.a the nearest tens strategy
(used previously to multiply by nine) to help multiply a two-digit
factor by nine (for example, 9 × 17). The build-down strategy is then used to multiply a one-digit factor by another factor that is near a
multiple of ten (for example, 39 × 3)
Writer’s Workshop
We’ve been enacting, which is to act a scene in our story
arc as the character! So…we’re putting ourselves in the shoes of our
characters, envisioning and enacting out the thoughts, feelings, dialogue, and
actions of that character, and then writing down what we’ve been envisioning in
our minds!
Envisioning helps with the revision of our writing too! We
took some of our writing that was really only a summary, and decided to break
it apart scene by scene in order to show
thoughts, feelings, actions, and dialogue of characters in our story!
Social Studies
This week we’ve been practicing Investigative/Inquiry skills
to find out more about Native Americans groups that called California their
home!
Science Lab
We discussed the topic of ecosystems and how living and non-living things in an ecosystem rely on one another!
And that's a wrap folks! Cheers, and have a good one!
