We had a wonderfully spooky week this week.
We started two new important daily activities this week in Math. As a whole group we have begun our Math Talks problem solving. There are many purposes for this such as exploring challenging math problems. Explaining our problem solving strategies using math language and to discover that there are many different ways to solve the same problems.
Another key math activity we started this week was working on our mental math work sheets. We are doing this in order to learn new skills and practice math in a whole bunch of areas such as patterning, measurement, shape and number facts.
In Language Art Reading we have been focusing on the comprehension strategy of identifying the main ideas. While reading our class novel and during guided reading groups we were challenged with finding the main idea of single paragraphs, single pages and entire chapters. We continued to explore this same idea while watching the news on Thursday.
In Writing, we finished publishing our stories on Google Docs. We printed them off on Wednesday and shared them with our buddies, which was lots of fun. We came up with our rubrics to assess our writing based on everything that we have learned about writing narrative stories. Then we got to assess one of Mr. Pressey's stories that we helped write during our learning. One thing that we learned was that our writing can always get better.
In gym, we started a new badminton unit. So far we have learned how to hit safely, serve and to keep a rally going.
Remember next week is IT's a Crime Not to Read on Tuesday so return your books.
We started two new important daily activities this week in Math. As a whole group we have begun our Math Talks problem solving. There are many purposes for this such as exploring challenging math problems. Explaining our problem solving strategies using math language and to discover that there are many different ways to solve the same problems.
Another key math activity we started this week was working on our mental math work sheets. We are doing this in order to learn new skills and practice math in a whole bunch of areas such as patterning, measurement, shape and number facts.
In Language Art Reading we have been focusing on the comprehension strategy of identifying the main ideas. While reading our class novel and during guided reading groups we were challenged with finding the main idea of single paragraphs, single pages and entire chapters. We continued to explore this same idea while watching the news on Thursday.
In Writing, we finished publishing our stories on Google Docs. We printed them off on Wednesday and shared them with our buddies, which was lots of fun. We came up with our rubrics to assess our writing based on everything that we have learned about writing narrative stories. Then we got to assess one of Mr. Pressey's stories that we helped write during our learning. One thing that we learned was that our writing can always get better.
In gym, we started a new badminton unit. So far we have learned how to hit safely, serve and to keep a rally going.
Remember next week is IT's a Crime Not to Read on Tuesday so return your books.
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