E-8, The Great!: Friday Afternoon Post (October 11, 2019)

Howdy Folks!

Let's see what we did this week!

Reader's Workshop

We've continued to focus on noticing the desires/wants of the characters and then inferring their motivation behind that want by referring to the back story (i.e.support our inference with textual evidence). We are also noticing the obstacles that these characters face, and infer why they might have dealt with the obstacle(s) they way did.

We've also been noticing contrasts and contradictions in the stories we're reading; that is when a character acts one type of way but then acts a totally different way that is unexpected. We then infer why is the character motivated to act like that.

On top of all of this wonderful learning, we've been referring to our reading learning progression and revising our recorded thoughts in order to level up.

Writer's Workshop

We're continuing to draft our scenes in our story arc, specifically using the strategy of being in the character's shoes, and envisioning the character's next steps in the scene! we've also revised our lead scene by referring to leads of well written stories from authors we know and love! We notice that strong leads have dialogue, a small action, reactions between two characters, and strong elaboration that sets the mood and location (setting)

Today was rap lyrics Friday, and we continued to write our 16 bars to make a rap verse! Today we discussed internal rhyme and figurative language such as personification, metaphors, and similes!

Math

This week we used our understanding of place value to help round numbers to the nearest ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, and hundred thousand.We also built a picture of one million using real-world situations and classroom resources. The emphasis is, again, on place value, with students describing the relationship between different place values.

On top of that, we generated multiples of numbers and find patterns that can be used to determine if a number is a multiple of another number. We explored the relationship between multiples and factors and find pairs of numbers that have a multiple factor relationship as well!